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The Ilulissat Icefjord (also known as Ilulissat Kangerlua or Kangia) in West Greenland, bordered by lichen-encrusted rocky slopes.

The Ilulissat Icefjord (also known as Ilulissat Kangerlua or Kangia) in West Greenland, bordered by lichen-encrusted rocky slopes.

The Ilulissat Icefjord runs west 40 km (25 miles) from the Greenland Ice Sheet to Disko Bugt (Disko Bay). At the eastern end of the fjord is the Jakobshavn Isbr䟧lacier (aka Sermeq Kujalleq), one of the most productive, fast-moving, and quickly receding glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere. The Ilulissat Icefjord was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004.

Immense melting icebergs at Isfjeldbanken (the Iceberg Bank), Ilulissat Icefjord, Disko Bay, West Greenland. The Eqip Sermia Glacier, West Greenland. Detail of a disintegrating iceberg near Kangilerngata Sermia Glacier, West Greenland. The Ilulissat Icefjord (also known as Ilulissat Kangerlua or Kangia) in West Greenland, bordered by lichen-encrusted rocky slopes. Detail of an iceberg near Kangilerngata Sermia Glacier, West Greenland Melting icebergs floating near the calving front of the Kangilerngata Sermia Glacier, West Greenland. Disintegrating icebergs near the Kangilerngata Sermia Glacier, West Greenland. Ice detail at the calving front of the Eqip Sermia glacier, West Greenland. Detail of melting brash ice floating near Kangilerngata Sermia Glacier, West Greenland. Melting iceberg floating near the calving front of the Kangilerngata Sermia Glacier, West Greenland. Icebergs near Eqip Sermia Glacier in Disko Bugt (Disko Bay), West Greenland Ice detail at the receding calving front of the Eqip Sermia glacier, West Greenland. Ice detail in the ablation zone at the Eqip Sermia glacier, West Greenland. The Eqip Sermia Glacier, West Greenland Iceberg and shoreline hills dusted with snow near Kangilerngata Sermia Glacier, West Greenland. A naturally-arched iceberg floats near Eqip Sermia Glacier in Disko Bugt (Disko Bay), West Greenland. A melting iceberg in brash ice, with a distant rainstorm approaching, near Kangilerngata Sermia Glacier, West Greenland. The northern portion of snow-capped Qeqertarsuaq (Herbert Island) in Murchison Sund, Baffin Bay, Northwest Greenland. Even at mid-day, in October the sun is low in the sky. Huge melting icebergs at Isfjeldbanken (the Iceberg Bank), Ilulissat Icefjord, Disko Bay, West Greenland. Moonrise at Ilulissat Icefjord (also known as Ilulissat Kangerlua or Kangia) in West Greenland. The pink glow of a mid-October sunrise illuminates the southern end of Qeqertarsuaq (Herbert Island) and icebergs in Murchison Sund, Baffin Bay, Northwest Greenland. At the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet, a small tidewater glacier funnels ice into the sea in Smith Sund near Ullersuaq (Kap Alexander), northern Baffin Bay, Northwest Greenland. The shrinking Greenland Ice Sheet in Northwest Greenland. A variety of lichen species on a sun-lit boulder near the Greenland Ice Sheet in Northwest Greenland. The full moon rises at sunset behind a section of the Greenland Ice Sheet that has receded away from the coast of Northwest Greenland. Scars in the rock reveal where a glacier previously scoured a trough from the ice sheet to the sea. The colorful glow of a mid-October sunset illuminates icebergs in Murchison Sund, at the northern end of Baffin Bay in Northwest Greenland.