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Ilulissat Icefjord

Type Ice Fjord
Length 25 miles
Icebergs Formed 20 billion tonnes per year

Learning Point

  • The home of one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world, Ilulissat Icefjord is a fjord on the western coast of Greenland. The icebergs that leave from it travel further south and the United Kingdom or New York. 6.5% of the ice that leaves Greenland comes out of this fjord.

Project

  • Draw a picture of Ilulissat Icefjord and the icebergs that form in it.
  • Overview
  • Ice Shelf Diagram
Buiobuione, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A diagram of an Ice Shelf
Hannes Grobe, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

Media

Location

Located in Avannaata, Greenland

Fun Facts

  • The ice fjord is 25 miles long and often full of icebergs.
  • The icebergs come from the Jakobshavn Glacier which calves at least 20 billion tonnes of ice every year.
  • It is one of the fastest flowing glaciers in the world, moving as much as 115 ft per day.
  • The fjord is often so full of icebergs that through much of it it looks like there is no water.

Past Lessons

79 August 21, 2023 (North America)
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