#ilulissat

[maureen2musings]

Sunset gate

isabellandscapes

[phoenixcharm54]

Some auroras over Ilulissat, Greenland.

[northameicanblog]

Ilulissat, Greenland: Ilulissat is the municipal seat and largest town of the Avannaata municipality in western Greenland, located approximately 350 km north of the Arctic Circle. It is the third-largest city in Greenland, after Nuuk and Sisimiut. The city is home to almost as many sled-dogs as people. Tourism is now the town's principal industry. The city neighbours the Ilulissat Icefjord, where there are enormous icebergs from the most productive glacier in the northern hemisphere. Wikipedia

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A humpback whale swims past an iceberg in Disko Bay near Ilulissat, Greenland. Earlier this year scientists released a study in which they concluded that the country’s glaciers, which all descend from the Greenland Ice Sheet, have retreated about 20% more than previously estimated. Of the 200 glaciers included in the study, only one has grown since 1985. Overall, the amount of glacial ice melting globally has increased markedly over the past 30 years

Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

[draugagangur]

greenland puppy

[thingsdavidlikes]

Midnight cruising to the Disko bay by yan08865

[tulunnguaq]

The town of Ilulissat (meaning “icebergs”), from the south.

[davidstanleytravel]

Ilulissat, Greenland, is said to have almost as many sled dogs as people.