Sermermiut Ilulissat Greenland
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Almost caught Calving iceberg, Sermermiut, Ilulissat
A giant iceberg split in half in front of our eyes. Truly stunning.
Evening, july 8 2015.
Barely got the drone ready.
Kangia, Ilulissat Icefjord
Kangia, the Ilulissat Icefjord, by boat in April 2010.
Ilulissat to Kangerlussuaq
Air Greenland flight from Ilulissat to Kangerlussauq with views of Kangia icefjord, Disko Bay and the mighty Greenland icecap
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Filmed in July 2010 at Ilulissat in Greenland
Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland
In the second part of my Greenland video series, I will take you to the incredibly stunning Ilulissat Icefjord, a beautiful bay full of icebergs and also the location of my all time favorite campsite! Heading up even further north on a boat, we also got very close to Eqi Glacier and witnessed some calving icebergs.
Greenland Grandeur in Ilulissat
Starting a YouTube channel. Or should I say, my first public video to an old YouTube channel?
Must start somewhere.
This week I booked flights to Greenland in September and set up multiple boat tours with local operators. This will be my 4th visit and I'm ready and eager to go now and see what new iceberg formations we will find.
I have been experimenting with video and it's about time to share a few. I have much to learn but it's been fun playing. This is a small sample of Greenland from the first 3 adventures. The Ilulissat Icefjord and Jakobshavn glacier await and the 6-month countdown begins.
This is an OFFBEAT workshop event.
Ilulissat Icefjord World Heritage Site Greenland
Ilulissat is situated in Disko Bay at the mouth of the Ilulissat Icefjord which was included as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004. There are three designated hiking trails of varying duration and difficulty in the Illulisat Icefjord (Ilulissat Kangerlua) each providing fabulous opportunities to hike along the edge of the fjord and get stupendous views of a massive number of icebergs that have calved from the most active glacier in the world: Sermeq Kujalleq. We followed the blue route that takes you along a boardwalk past the old settlement of Semermuit and then follows the bare rocky coast above the fjord. We then joined the red route that took us back to the beginning of the boardwalk, which takes about a couple of hours. From here it's an easy 20 minutes walk back into the town, making this an ideal half day activity for those who have come into Ilulissat on a cruise ship.
Music: 'Paper Birds' by Icelandic group, Parachutes
Ilulissat Icefjord - Timelapse Film from Greenland
Experience a beautiful timelapse trip to the Ilulissat Icefjord. This timelapse film project is made by photographer Bo Normander and timelapse expert Casper Rolsted.
Photographer: Bo Normander
Timelapse expert and sounddesigner: Casper Rolsted
ILULISSAT ICEFJORD - Greenland
Ilulissat Icefjord is a natural site of outstanding beauty created by inland ice and gigantic icebergs from the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier at the head of the fjord. In 2004, Ilulissat Icefjord was included on the UNESCO World Heritage List, hence achieving the highest international recognition for nature of irreplaceable value. The purpose of the World Heritage List is to protect the world's cultural and natural heritage from destruction and stringent requirements are enforced to be admitted to the list.
The Icefjord is 4 to 6 km wide and 70 km long. It is shaped like an elongated trough formed by drifting glacial ice that has cut deep into the bedrock for millennia like a river of gravel, stone, and ice. The fjord is over a thousand metres deep but at the mouth of the fjord, where it meets Disko Bay at Sermermiut south of Ilulissat, the largest icebergs run aground on the Iceberg Bank as the fjord here is only 200 to 300 metres deep. The banks were made up in pre-historic times by glacial deposits of stone and eroded material. It is an amazing view from Sermermiut overlooking the stranded icebergs – the largest of which can extend up to 100 metres above sea level.
Over the past ten years, the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier has doubled its speed so that today it moves at about 40 metres per day. That makes it one of the world's fastest glaciers. It calves an impressive 40 to 50 cubic kilometres of ice a year, equivalent to one tenth of the total production of icebergs from the Greenland ice sheet. If this amount of ice was melted it would provide enough water to cover all of the United States' annual water consumption.
The largest icebergs from Sermeq Kujalleq are up to 1.5 cubic kilometres with a height of up to 120 m above sea level. However, the majority of an iceberg, over 80% of its mass, is located below sea level.
The Sermeq Kujalleq glacier contributes to a rich marine environment in several ways. The melt-water from the glacier ice contains varying quantities of nutrients and the icebergs create turbulence in the water column when they melt or turn around. This brings relatively warm and nutrient-rich water from deeper layers to the surface. Along with the tide, which is up to three metres between high tide and low tide, these conditions create a dynamic environment that enhances planktonic growth, which in turn attracts fish and sea mammals. The Icefjord is particularly known for its fine stocks of halibut. The icebergs also make large parts of the fjord unreachable and therefore wildlife is relatively well protected from hunting and fishing.
ILULISSAT ISFJORD - Grønland
Ilulissat Isfjord er et enestående naturområde skabt af gigantiske isfjelde fra den store Sermeq Kujalleq-gletsjer i bunden af fjorden. I 2004 blev Ilulissat Isfjord optaget på UNESCOs liste over verdensarv og opnåede dermed den højeste internationale anerkendelse for natur af uvurderlig værdi. Formålet med UNESCOs liste er at beskytte verdens kulturarv og naturarv mod ødelæggelse, og der stilles høje krav for at blive optaget.
Isfjorden er 4-6 km bred og 70 km dyb. Den er som et meget langt trug skabt af isfjelde, der gennem årtusinder har skåret sig dybt ned i fjeldet som en flod af sten og is. Fjorden er over tusind meter dyb, men ved udmundingen i Diskobugten, nær Sermermiut syd for Ilulissat, støder de største isfjelde på grund på Isfjeldsbanken. Der er vanddybden nemlig kun 2-300 meter på grund af massive aflejringer af sten og eroderet materiale. Det er et fantastisk syn at stå ved Sermermiut og se ud over de strandede isfjelde, hvoraf de største rager næsten 100 meter op.
Sermeq Kujalleq-gletsjeren har de seneste 10 år fordoblet sin hastighed, så den i dag bevæger sig med omkring 40 meter i døgnet. Det gør den til en af verdens hurtigste gletsjere. Den kælver imponerende 40 til 50 kubikkilometer is om året, svarende til en tiendedel af hele produktionen af isfjelde fra Grønlands indlandsis. Smeltede man denne ismængde, var der nok vand til at dække USAs årlige vandforbrug.
De største isfjelde fra Sermeq Kujalleq fylder 1,5 km3. Hovedparten af et isfjeld (mindst 80%) befinder sig under havoverfladen. Der er målt isfjelde, der rager helt op til 120 m over havoverfladen.
Sermermiut Ilulissat
Sermermiut is the old settlement in Ilulissat, by walking on the boardwalk you end up here. One of the most beautiful views!! Right to the UNESCO heritage site, Ilulissat icefiord
The Icefjord Centre by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter
The building is designed as an all encompassing framework, partly inside and partly outside that embraces all activities. The wooden framework, designed as a truss, bridges the rugged landscape. It floats lightly above it, curving out over the edge of the Sermermiut Valley offering the spectacular, undisturbed view through the valley and to the icefjord. The framework is covered by a gently sloping, curved wooden boardwalk that becomes the starting point for the World Heritage Trail and at the same time acts as a gathering point, a viewing platform, and an informal seating area.
The roof deck acts as a point of departure for local residents when going for a walk, a place to watch the sunset or gather in the evening sun. Moving through the building the geometry changes in section in a continuous flow. The movement of the structure and form creates a constantly changing view that enhances the experience of the landscape by framing the fantastic viewpoints. The Icefjord Centre will tell the story of ice, of human history and evolution globally as well as. For Greenland and Ilulissat, the Icefjord Centre will open for new opportunities to increase the already growing stream of tourists from all around the world.
According to the tourism strategy for Greenland, the centre is the first of five envisioned visitors’ centres, which together will take Greenland to a whole new level as a tourist destination. The idea is that the many nature experiences and cultural heritage narratives that Greenland has to offer will be communicated at several experience centres geographically across different regions in Greenland, inspired by centres such as the Norwegian Glacier Museum & Ulltveit-Moe Climate Centre in Fjærdal, Norway and the Thingvellir National Park in Iceland. Source by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Info project
A As Architecture - Discover Architecture
Hotel Hvide Falk - Ilulissat, Greenland
Ilulissat Grønland. Isfjorden, UNESCO World Heritage Site
#Ilulissat #Icefjord april 2019
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#UNESCO #WorldHeritageSite
Located on the west coast of #Greenland, 250 km north of the #ArcticCircle, Greenland’s Ilulissat Icefjord is the sea mouth of Sermeq Kujalleq, one of the few glaciers through which the Greenland ice cap reaches the sea. Sermeq Kujalleq is one of the fastest and most active glaciers in the world. It annually calves over 35 km3 of ice, i.e. 10% of the production of all Greenland calf ice and more than any other glacier outside Antarctica. Studied for over 250 years, it has helped to develop our understanding of climate change and icecap glaciology. The combination of a huge ice-sheet and the dramatic sounds of a fast-moving glacial ice-stream calving into a fjord covered by icebergs makes for a dramatic and awe-inspiring natural phenomenon.
Greenland Ilulissat iceberg collapse - Groenlandse Ilulissat ijsberg stort in
Don't forget to watch in HD!!! --- For English Description, scroll down.
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In 2012 ben ik mee geweest op een 11-daagse vaarvakantie langs de kust van Groenland in de Disko Bugt (Disko bay).
Tijdens onze vaart door het gletsjer ijs stortte er een ijsberg in terwijl wij in de bijboot zaten.
Ik heb nog heel veel meer gefilmd tijdens deze reis, deze video's kun je bekijken door aan het eind van dit filmpje op 1 van de 3 linkjes te klikken of door naar mijn kanaal te gaan en te kiezen voor de Greenland Playlist.
Eventuele vragen beantwoord ik met alle plezier in de comments.
Video's zijn gemaakt met de Panasonic FZ38.
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In 2012 I went to Greenland for an eleven-days boat trip along the coast of Greenland in the Disko Bugt (Disko Bay).
During our trip through the gletsjer ice with the boat there was an icerberg collapsing right in front of us.
I filmed a lot more during this trip, you can watch these videos by clicking on the videos at the end of this one or by visiting my channel and clicking on the Greenland Playlist.
If you have any questions, leave them in the comments and I will try to answer them.
Video's were made with the Panasonic FZ38.
Want to see more Greenland videos, watch my Greenland playlist:
CREDITS:
This music is made by Royaltyfreekings
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N551MA Iceberg landing Ilulissat Greenland
Ilulissat Løjpen af Frederik Petersen GRL.
Smukt løjpe på Sermermiut Ilulissat Isfjorden!
Ilulissat
Views of the harbor, and adjoining coast, of the 3rd largest town in Greenland.
SPECTACULAR ILULISSAT GLACIER HIKE,GREENLAND - A VICARIOUS VISIT
Its in Greenland.
It's huge!
The Icefjord itself is 6km wide and 55km long, growing every year, since the main glaciers are receding: that’s how all this ice gets there in the first place!
It's fast moving!
The Icefjord itself calves form the Sermaq Kujallaq glacier, on of the fastest moving glaciers in the world, with a daily movement of 40m, 14,600 meters per year.
One of the greatest things about the Icefjord is how small is makes you feel.
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Quick facts
Ilulissat is a coastal town in western Greenland. It's known for the Ilulissat Icefjord and for huge icebergs Disko Bay, shed by the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier. Trails run to the Sermermiut settlement for dramatic views over the ice. The Ilulissat Museum traces the area’s history and the life of local-born explorer Knud Rasmussen. The area is home to thousands of Greenland dogs, used for dogsledding.
Greenland Ilulissat August 2017
Urlaub Grönland Ilulissat im August
GREENLAND - Sermermiut UNESCO Trail
Hiking through the UNESCO trail at Sermermiut, just outside of Ilulissat.
Recordings where made with:
- GO PRO Hero 7 Black (JOBY mount.)
- Mavic Air
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