Ilulissat, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and specifically, Jakobshavn Glacier, are so other worldly and unique ... place it on your bucket list! Really! A palate of white and blue, the Ilulissat Icefjord runs west 25 miles from the Greenland ice sheet to just south of town. At its eastern end lies the Jakobshavn Glacier, the most productive glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. The glacier flows at a rate of about 100 feet per day, producing more than 20 billion tons of icebergs annually—the most of any glacier outside Antarctica. Icebergs breaking from the glacier are often so large—up to 3300 feet in height—they fail to exit 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 line.
The photos due an injustice to the beauty and enormity of Ilulissat and its extraordinary glacier. We did a small boat cruise around the icebergs and later walked to a fjord overlook. You. Just. Have. To. See. It. To. Believe. It!
