Maniitsoq Ice Cap

Maniitsoq Ice Cap (old spelling: Manîtsoq, Danish: Sukkertoppen iskappe or Sukkertoppen isflade) is a 58 km × 41 km (36 mi × 25 mi) ice cap[1] in the Qeqqata municipality in western Greenland.

[2] The maximum height is marked as an 8,000 feet (2,438 m) high summit in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts,[3] although it does not rise above 1,850 metres (6,070 ft).

[2] In the south, several mountain glaciers drain it towards the upper reaches of the Kangerlussuatsiaq Fjord.

To the west, the ice cap is drained by the long Sermitsiaq Glacier.

[4] To the northeast of the ice sheet lies the wide highland of Angujaartorfiup Nunaa, home to herds of muskoxen,[5] originally reintroduced in its northern part from the populations of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

Defense Mapping Agency map of Greenland section