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Ice Fjord

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Ice Fjord, Spitsbergen: see Isfjorden Isfjorden [Ice Fjord], inlet of the Greenland Sea and largest fjord of Spitsbergen island, Svalbard, Norway, 65 mi (105 km) long and from 8 to 20 mi (12.8–32 km) wide. It receives several glaciers.
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The helicopter lands on a granite cliff overlooking the Ilulissat ice fjord, or Kangia in Greenlandic, offering a magnificent, panoramic view of elaborate ice formations as they float towards the sea at a rate of two meters (yards) an hour, spilling massive icebergs into the open water.
Greenland: roar of melting glacier sounds climate change alarm by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Ilulissat with its Ice Fjord and the pastoral Narsaq in the south are my favourites, although my wife disagrees, having seen remote East Greenland.
WHITE CHRISTMAS by JULL, PETER / Arena Magazine
 
 
 
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