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Ilulissat Icefjord (Greenlandic: Ilulissat Kangerlua) is a fjord in western Greenland. Located 250 km north of the Arctic Circle , the Ilulissat Icefjord runs west 40 km (25 mi) from the Greenland ice sheet to Disko Bay just south of the town of Ilulissat . [ 1 ]
It is located near the Greenlandic town of Ilulissat (colonial name in Danish: Jakobshavn) and ends at the sea in the Ilulissat Icefjord. Jakobshavn Glacier drains 6.5% of the Greenland ice sheet [1] and produces around 10% of all Greenland icebergs. Some 35 billion tonnes of icebergs calve off and pass out of the fjord every year.
The nearby Ilulissat Icefjord is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, [7] and has made Ilulissat the most popular tourist destination in Greenland. [8] Tourism is now the town's principal industry. The city neighbours the Ilulissat Icefjord, where there are enormous icebergs from the most productive glacier in the northern hemisphere.
Icebergs float in the Ilulissat Icefjord near the mouth to Disko Bay near Ilulissat, Greenland, in July. The Summary This was the Arctic’s second-hottest year on record, according to a new NOAA ...
Ilulissat Icefjord, ... This is a list of the most important fjords of Greenland: [1] [2] Fjords ... Ammassalik wooden maps; List of glaciers in Greenland; References
Ilulissat Icefjord: Avannaata, Greenland 2004 1149; vii, viii (natural) Ilulissat Icefjord is one of the few places where the Greenland ice sheet meets the sea, in the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier. This is one of the most active glaciers in the world, which annually calves over 35 cubic kilometres (8.4 cu mi) of ice.
An image from the European Space Agecny’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows the Jakobshavn Isbræ Glacier in Greenland — one of the fastest and most active glaciers in the world.
It is the largest open bay in western Greenland, measuring 150 kilometres (93 mi) north to south and 100 kilometres (62 mi) east to west. It has an average depth of 400 metres (1,300 ft) and average water temperature of 3.5 °C (38.3 °F), which in winter drops to −1.75 °C (28.85 °F) and then rises up to 12 °C (54 °F) in summer. [ 3 ]