Kjer Glacier is a tidewater glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

 in the Qaasuitsup

Qaasuitsup

Qaasuitsup is a new municipality in Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. As of January 2010 its population is 17,749. The administrative center of the municipality is in Ilulissat...

 municipality, located on the northwestern shore of Greenland

Greenland

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

. It drains the Greenland ice sheet

Greenland ice sheet

The Greenland ice sheet is a vast body of ice covering , roughly 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice sheet is almost long in a north-south direction, and its greatest width is at a latitude of 77°N, near its...

  southweatwards into Melville Bay

Melville Bay

Melville Bay , is a large bay off the coast of northwestern Greenland. Located to the north of the Upernavik Archipelago, it opens to the south-west into Baffin Bay. Its Kalaallisut name, Qimusseriarsuaq, means "the great dog sledding place"....

. The glacier front is located to the northwest of the Tuttulikassak

Tuttulikassak

Tuttulikassak is a nunatak in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland.- Geography :Tuttulikassak is one of several nunataks in the Melville Bay region of Greenland, where the Greenland ice sheet drains into the bay alongside its entire length apart from an occasional nunatak...

 nunatak

Nunatak

A nunatak is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within an ice field or glacier. The term is typically used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present...

, with the glacier constituting the northern end of Upernavik Archipelago

Upernavik Archipelago

Upernavik Archipelago is a vast archipelago of small islands in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland, on the coast of northeastern Baffin Bay...

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Administrative border

Before the administrative changes on 1 January 2009 in the country, the border between the former Upernavik Municipality

Upernavik Municipality

Upernavik Municipality was one of the municipalities of Greenland, until 31 December 2008. The municipality was home to approximately 3,000 people, while 1,144 live in the town of Upernavik, and the remainder live in ten other settlements, including Kullorsuaq, with a population of about 400...

 and the former Qaanaaq Municipality

Qaanaaq Municipality

Qaanaaq Municipality was the only municipality in the county of North Greenland . It is now part of the municipality of Qaasuitsup.The Thule Air Base , which is not part of any municipality , is a part of the U.S...

ran through Kjer Glacier. Since then, both municipalities and the entire coast of Melville Bay are part of the Qaasuitsup municipality, at 660000 square kilometre the largest municipality in the world.