This Envisat image shows part of Greenland’s west coast – home to one of the fastest and most active glaciers in the world, Sermeq Kujalleq. At the centre of the image the glacier’s sea mouth is visible: the Ilulissat fjord. A fjord is a narrow inlet carved by glacial activity.A UNESCO World Heritage since 2004, Ilulissat awes tourists who come to see and hear the sounds of the fast-moving glacial ice-stream calving into the iceberg-ridden fjord. Read More
