Icebergs of Ilulissat. Nature miracle

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When you look at the geographical map of the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth, Greenland stands out on it as a large white spot. Not because it has not been studied. It's just that this largest island in the northern half of our planet is almost completely covered in ice and snow. The exceptions are the coasts, where the grass here and there is green in summer.

Icebergs of Ilulissat

To get to know the geography of Greenland closer, you can use the computer program "Planet Earth". It shows parts of our planet taken from space. At first, the impression is almost the same as from a geographical map - white ice and snow all around. Then, when you zoom in on the image, you notice small clusters of squares. This is how the pictures taken by travelers are marked. Some cluster in the southwest of the island around the town of Nuuk. This is the capital of Greenland, which is considered an autonomous territory of Denmark, but in fact belongs to the local population - the Eskimos.

The second cluster of images is located higher, but also belongs to the western coast of the island near the town of Ilulissat. It is the third largest settlement in Greenland. It is located 350 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. Life here is typically Greenlandic - for every couple of local residents (and there are less than 5 thousand people) there is a sled dog. You can't drive around here by car. A long and rather wide white ribbon is clearly visible near the town. This is the Sermek-Kujallek glacier and Icefjord.

Icefjord (literally translated as "ice fjord") is almost completely clogged with ice that slides from this glacier. The width of the glacier is decent - about 5 kilometers. The speed of movement towards the sea is huge - 19 meters per day. It turns out a kind of giant transport ice belt, which annually dumps about 20 million tons of ice into the sea. Not surprisingly, Sermek-Kujallek is rightfully considered one of the most powerful glaciers outside of Antarctica. The length of this stone gut is about 40 kilometers! Only closer to the sea do individual ice mountains break off and float freely. They are very large, and from space they look like white rectangles and polyhedra.

Tourists from all over the world come to see this wonder. Small ships scurrying between huge icebergs resemble children's toys. At the same time, one must also remember that only a small part of the ice mountains remains above the water. Their draft is so deep that some, when leaving the fjord, to the delight of travelers, run aground and anchor for a long time on the beam of Ilulissat. They are the main attraction of the city. It is no coincidence that its name in translation from the Eskimo language means iceberg.

The Sermek-Kujallek glacier and Icefjord are so unique that in 2004 UNESCO added them to the list of World Heritage Sites. Tours are taken to the glacier. But you can ride the fjord on a ship and even come close to one of the icebergs on it. Just dress warmly beforehand. Greenland is not the tropics.

Author: Afonkin S.Yu.

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