page_title: Nordenskiöld Glacier (Novaya Zemlya)
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Nordenskiöld Glacier (Novaya Zemlya) / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: 1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet B-2, 3rd edition. Covers Svalbard (Norway) and the U.S.S.R. Lambert Conformal Conic Projection. Standard Parallels 73 20N and 78 40N. Center longitude 61 15N
context_page_description: The Nordenskiöld Glacier is a group of four glaciers in Novaya Zemlya, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.
  This glacier group was named after Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.
context_section_description: The Nordenskiöld Glacier group is located on the eastern side of northern Severny Island of Novaya Zemlya. Flowing from the Severny Island ice cap, it is composed of four roughly north-south oriented tidewater glaciers:
  Vershinsky Glacier (Lednik Vershinskogo), the soutwesternmost
  Rozhdestvensky Glacier (Lednik Rozhdestvenskogo)
  Novopashenny Glacier (Lednik Novopashennogo), also known as Lednik Sredniy
  Roze Glacier (Lednik Roze), the northeasternmost
  Their fronts have widths of over 3 km in average and their terminuses are in the Kara Sea between Cape Opasnyy and Cape Middendorff.
caption: Map of northern Novaya Zemlya and southern Franz Josef Land.
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