Greenland’s Ice Cap
The Greenland ice cap has an esti
mated volume of 1.7 million km3 with numerous glaciers that extend from the ice cap out to the Davis Strait. The most well-known of these is the Ilulissat Glacier. It is one of the fastest and most active glaciers in the world, creating dramatic and breath-taking scenery of ice and sea. Producing 10% of all Greenland’s ice fields, this glacier represents roughly 35 billion tons of ice a year. The ice fields of Greenland’s glaciers are products of the ice cap, formed form fresh water which has fallen as snow over the past 100,000 years.
Ilulissat is a vibrant town with a popular boardwalk that leads out to the ice field, where people can watch city-block-sized icebergs creak, growl and calf into the sea.
