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PHOTO GALLERY: GREENLAND


MM7246_060718_.3254_thumb.jpg Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland
July 18, 2006
Ilulissat Glacier has calved these icebergs into the waters of the Ilulissat Isfjord. The Ilulissat is responsible for putting more ice into ...
MM7246_060717_.3009_thumb.jpg Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland
July 17, 2006
Ilulissat Glacier has calved these icebergs into the waters of the Ilulissats Isfjord. The bergs are...
GRL0922_thumb.jpg Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland
June 7, 2007
A helicopter flying past a half-mile-wide section of the Ilulissat Glacier calving face gives perspective on the staggering immensity of this ice wall (in some places it ...
GRL0715_thumb.jpg Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland
June 7, 2007
Ground Zero of the climate change story: the calving face of the Ilulissat Isfjord. This four-mile-wide (6.4 km.) wall of ice discharges more ice into the ...
GRL1042_thumb.jpg Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland
June 7, 2007
The Ilulissat Isfjord. This glacier, which drains ten percent of the entire Greenland subcontinent, discharges more ice into the global ocean...
MM7246_060718_.3513_thumb.jpg Greenland Ice Sheet, Greenland
July 18, 2006
A meltwater lake on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet 60 miles southeast of Ilulissat. The dark material etching out the crevasses is a combination of natural dust particles kicked...
Greenland2339_thumb.jpg Greenland Ice Sheet, Greenland
July 15, 2006
On the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet east of Kangerlussuaq, a meltwater stream known by the French word “moulin” (in English it means “mill,” as in windmill). Meltwater ...
GL-8-07-0198_thumb.jpg Disko Bay, Greenland
August 24, 2007
Icebergs 200 feet tall, formerly part of the Greenland Ice Sheet, float into the North Atlantic Ocean, raising sea levels as they melt.
UUMMANNAQ_Icebergs_07_thumb.jpg Store Glacier, Greenland
August 10, 2007
Chunks from the Greenland Ice Sheet in the process of being flushed out to sea by Store Glacier's spring calving. These bergs are the tangible manifestation of the process by which the ice sheet is thinning and raising sea level.
GL-8-07-0001_thumb.jpg Disko Bay, Greenland
August 24, 2007
Ice formed in the Ilulissat Isfjord floats to the North Sea through the waters of Disko Bay, in a scene capturing the stark beauty of Greenland’s summer seas.
GL10577sm.jpg Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland
March 8, 2008
Ilulissat Glacier has calved these icebergs into the waters of the Ilulissat Isfjord. The bergs are melting into the North Atlantic Ocean as they float through Disko Bay and continue...
GL10924sm.jpg Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland
March 8, 2008
Icebergs, Iluliisat Isfjord.
GL12624sm.jpg Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland
March 15, 2008
The sea surface downstream from the Ilulissat Glacier's calving face is packed so tightly with icebergs small and large that you can walk many miles and never touch water.
GL13146sm.jpg Ilulissat Glacier, Greenland
March 15, 2008
Icebergs, Iluliisat Isfjord.
GL13270sm.jpg Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland
March 14, 2008
Icebergs, Ilulissat Isfjord.
GL13283sm.jpg Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland
March 15, 2008
A massive iceberg broken off the Greenland Ice Sheet, surrounded by lily pads of sea ice, in the process of breaking up at the edge of Disko Bay.
GL-8-07-0173sm.jpg Disko Bay, Greenland
August 24, 2007
Icebergs that have rolled over and been scalloped by waves metamorphose into fantastic shapes.
GRL1400sm.jpg Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland
June 7, 2007
Icebergs calved from Ilulissat Glacier float to the sea This glacier dumps more ice into the global ocean than any other glacier in the Northern Hemisphere...
MM7246_40x27.25sm.jpg Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland
July 17, 2006
The Ilulissat Glacier has calved these icebergs into the waters of the Ilulissat Isfjord. The bergs are melting into the North Atlantic Ocean as they float through Disko Bay.
 
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