Greenland, June 2003

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Mountains peaking up through the ice cap, in eastern Greenland.

eastern Greenland

eastern Greenland

eastern Greenland

The East coast of Greenland, near Illulissat

On approach to Illulissat. The 2800 foot runway is in the distance. Those icebergs are big!

That's a big boat behind this iceberg.

A view from the Illulissat runway.

Melinda

Leann and Melinda at the ice fjord. I think this is the most productive glacier in the Northern Hemisphere.

Recent glacier polish.

Sled crossing.

You can see that this iceberg is resting on the bottom.

This iceberg was capsized.

Illulissat on the right, the airport beyond.

The ice floats out of the fjord into the ocean. There is a submerged "spit", or raised area that blocks the big icebergs here, forming the ice fjord.

Flying up the ice fjord.

This glaciers is supposed to be the largest in the Northern Hemisphere, even bigger than the Bering Glacier in Alaska.

It's BIG.

You can see the Greenland Ice Cap on top here. It goes all the way across Greenland to the mountains of eastern Greenland.