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Ilulissat Icefjord

Fjord in Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark

Summary

Fjord in Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark

Field	Value
image	Greenland Ilulissat-25.jpg
image_upright	1.2
caption	Iceberg making its way through Ilulissat Icefjord
location	Avannaata, Greenland
criteria	(vii), (viii)
ID	1149
coordinates
year	2004
area	402,400 ha
locmapin	Greenland

the World Heritage Site in western Greenland

Ilulissat Icefjord () is a fjord in western Greenland. Located 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, the Ilulissat Icefjord runs west 40 km from the Greenland ice sheet to Disko Bay just south of the town of Ilulissat. Ilulissat Icefjord was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004 because of its natural beauty and the importance of the fast-moving Jacobshavn Glacier in developing the current scientific understanding of anthropogenic climate change. { "type": "ExternalData", "service": "geoshape", "ids": "Q828071", "properties": { "fill": "#0050d0"}}

Geography

The fjord contains the Jacobshavn Isbræ (), the most productive glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. The glacier flows at a rate of 20 - per day, resulting in around 20 billion tonnes of icebergs calved off and passing out of the fjord every year.

Icebergs breaking from the glacier are often so large —up to a kilometer (3,300 ft) in height— that they are too tall to float down the fjord and lie stuck on the bottom of its shallower areas, sometimes for years, until they are broken up by the force of the glacier and icebergs further up the fjord. On breaking up, the icebergs emerge into the open sea and initially travel north with ocean currents before turning south and running into the Atlantic Ocean. Larger icebergs typically do not melt until they reach 40-45 degrees north —farther south than the United Kingdom and level with New York City.

References

Bibliography

Ilulissat Icefjord. Book edited by Ole Bennike, Naja Mikkelsen, Greg McCollum, Henrik Klinge Pedersen and Anker Weidick, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, 28 September 2004,

References

"Ilulissat Icefjord". United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
"Explore Ilulissat Icefjord – teaching material from GEUS".

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