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Jakobshavn

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Jakobshavn 

a city in western Greenland, on Disko Bay. Population, 3,600 (1971). Jakobshavn, a fishing port, has enterprises for the processing of fish. The city was founded in 1741.



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Briner said the findings are especially relevant to the Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland's largest and fastest moving tidewater glacier, which is retreating under conditions similar to those he studied in the Canadian Arctic.
2008) 'Acceleration of Jakobshavn Isbrae triggered by warm subsurface ocean waters', Nature Geoscience 1 (10), pp.
They released a fleet of 90 rubber duckies into a moulin, or hole, in the Jakobshavn Glacier to learn how melting water moves through this massive, slow-moving river of ice.
 
 
 
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