Sermeq Kujalleq glacier in Ilulissat, Greenland is the birthplace of most of the icebergs that make their way into the North Atlantic. It produces the most icebergs of any glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. Some of these icebergs are 100 meters above the water line. Since that only represents 10% of the iceberg, they can be up to a kilometer deep. Most of the icebergs that calve from this glacier remain stuck on the moraine in the fjord until they melt enough to start moving. Once free, they drift north with the North Greenland Current, cross the Davis Strait, and then drift south on the Labrador Current into the Atlantic Ocean.
This photograph will look great on metal. If you prefer a paper print, I recommend that you include a mat and frame to avoid costly custom framing later on.
Ilulissat is the third largest town in Greenland, around 5,100 people, and its name simply means "the icebergs." Few places are so accurately named.
The ice fjord is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the town has become the country's busiest tourism destination: enough so that the community now requires visiting ship operators to use local businesses for excursions rather than running everything off the ship. That is a small regulation with a large idea behind it: that the benefit of people coming to look at your icebergs should accrue to the people who live beside them. Greenland has been tightening these rules generally, including restricting large vessels to the bigger settlements so that small communities are not overwhelmed.
Our own day there was arranged around it: harbour access negotiated with another ship, shuttle buses to the ice fjord centre, and a choice of hiking trails of different lengths and difficulties along the fjord rim, with warnings about ice and wildlife.
Fun fact: Sermeq Kujalleq is one of the fastest-moving glaciers in the world, advancing on the order of tens of metres a day, and it drains roughly seven percent of the entire Greenland ice sheet. Ice from this fjord drifts south into the North Atlantic, the same waters where the Titanic went down.
On printing this one: there are three Ilulissat images in this gallery, and they were made to live together. Hung as a set of three they tell the sequence: the fjord, the jam, the single berg that got out. If you are only taking one, take the one that suits your wall, but the trio is the better piece.
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