Ilulissat Icefjord
by Gerald Wetzel, Karlsruhe Institute ofTechnology, Karlsruhe, Germany
This photo was taken at the sea mouth of Ilulissat Icefjord and Sermeq Kujalleq, one of the glaciers through which the Greenland ice cap reaches the sea. Sermeq Kujalleq is one of the fastest (19 m per day) and most productive ice calving glaciers in the world.
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Location
- North America (751)
- Northern America (588)
- Greenland (69)
- Exact location (-51.1308 W, 69.2129 N)
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3008 × 2000 px;
image/jpeg; 2.3 MB
Camera:
Nikon D100
Taken on 16
June
2009
Submitted on 22 February 2011
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Credit
Gerald Wetzel (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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