"Located on the west coast of Greenland, 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord (40,240 ha) is the sea mouth of Sermeq Kujalleq, one of the few glaciers through which the Greenland ice cap reaches the sea. Sermeq Kujalleq is one of the fastest (19 m per day) and most active glaciers in the world. It annually calves over 35 km3 of ice, i.e. 10% of the production of all Greenland calf ice and more than any other glacier outside Antarctica. Studied for over 250 years, it has helped to develop our understanding of climate change and icecap glaciology. The combination of a huge ice-sheet and the dramatic sounds of a fast-moving glacial ice-stream calving into a fjord covered by icebergs makes for a dramatic and awe-inspiring natural phenomenon."
Source: UNESCO World Heritage
Postcard 1
Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland. Thanks to Dorthe of Denmark.
Postcard 2
With global warming, the polar ice in Greenland is fast melting away. Here is a unique map shape postcard showing the location of Ilulissat Icefjord at the middle western coast of Greenland. Postcard was postmarked at Kangerlussuaq near the Artic Circle and just south of Ilulissat on January 4, 2010 and arrived in Penang on January 14, 2010. Thanks so much to Grete of UK who was visiting Greenland over New Year's Eve.
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