A ship sails in the sunset with massive icebergs in the background

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The Ilulissat icefjord, an Unesco World Heritage Site, is a massive collection of icebergs that have calved from the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier. This glacier which produces around 10% of all Greenland’s icebergs is retreating rapidly. Icebergs breaking from the glacier are often so large (up to a kilometer in height) that they are too tall to float away and lie stuck on the bottom of the fjord, sometimes for years, until they are broken up into smaller sizes and can drift out to the open sea.

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Size: 2356px × 3514px
Location: Ilulissat, Greenland
Photo credit: © Jonatan Hedberg / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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