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Calving Iceberg
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The Greenland ice sheet drains into the ocean through a series of mighty outlet glaciers. The most famous of these is Jakobshavn Isbrae, also known as Ilulissat Glacier, aged around 250,000 – 11,550 years old (UNESCO. 2004), the world's fastest flowing glacier, which is thought to have calved the Iceberg that sunk the unsinkable ship - Titanic in 1912. Since the mid-1990s, many of these glaciers have dramatically accelerated, thinned and retreated, while calving increasing ice quantities into the ocean. Calving at these glaciers often takes the form of entire slabs of the calving front detaching and overturning. These slabs can be up to 1000m in height, producing an incredible view.back to gallery