Glaciers, Icefields and Icebergs
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One of the amazing things about glaciers is what you don't see, especially from a boat or ship. Some in Alaska are as deep as 2000 feet and 28 miles long.
Tasman Lake is continually formed from Tasman Glacier - part of Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park. The glacier face stands 160 ft (50 meters) tall. Water temperature is 3c (37f)
Much of iceland is pure ice. it is a very cold country. This boat takes tourists out on to the very cold water beneath the glacier.
Glacier Bay, Tarr Inset, Margerie Glacier
The morning reflections on the still waters as we approached this Glacier were something spectacular. The cruise ship provides some perspective of the size and scale of the scene.
What a fabulous Experience it was. It was my dream to walk on glacier.it feels like I landed on Paradise.
Margerie Glacier is a 21 mi (34 km) long tidewater glacier in Glacier Bay, Alaska. It is one of the most active and frequently-visited glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park. While most of the tidewater glaciers in the park have been receding over the last several decades. The width of the glacier is about 1 mile (1.6 km) and the total height at its terminus is about 350 feet (110 m) including 100 feet (30 m) that is underwater.
Hubbard Glacier viewed from the deck of the Royal Caribbean International Cruise Ship MS Radiance of the Seas in Disenchantment Bay Alaska U.S.A.
Flowing over 75 miles and calving into the sea with a face 6 miles wide, this glacier near Yakutat is the longest tidewater glacier in North America, and it is actively advancing!
John Hopkins Glacier,Alaska.
We parked here for an hour (shutting off the ships engine) and we were told to listen to the Glacier. Sure enough....from time to time it cracked like thunder!
Then, you would see particles and pieces of icebergs fall from part of the glacier into the sea!
The glacier makes its way down to the sea. Didn't have GPS turned on, so not sure exactly where this was, but the location is close.
A small pond adjacent to Lake St. Mary in Glacier National Park.
February 2015: I replaced the original edit with a larger image, post-processed in Adobe Lightroom 5 and Photomatix 5.
The Worthington Glacier sits prominently on this scenic highway as one drives to Valdez AK. It's an easy walk to the toe of this beautiful glacier.
"One of the most visited natural attractions along the Richardson Highway, this four-mile-long glacier descends almost to pavement and is easy to approach on foot. Worthington Glacier—listed as a Natural National Landmark—is kept healthy by the area’s extraordinary snowfall. (Nearby Thompson Pass has been known to experience 80 feet of annual accumulation!)." alaska.org
Enjoy a wonderful Sunday and week ahead!
Aerial view of Fourpeaked Glacier taken from aircraft en route to Katmai National Park for our bear viewing excursion. Fourpeaked Volcano is an active stratovolcano in Alaska and is nearly completely covered by Fourpeaked Glacier. Six percent of Katmai National Park is covered with glacier and some of these rivers of ice descend almost to sea level.
Photo taken on top of Nigardsbreen on a glacier hike. This was about 2 hour hike up the glacier (it extends much much further up).
Nigardsbreen is a glacier arm of the large Jostedalsbreen glacier in Norway.
Icebergs calved by a gigantic glacier (70 km upstream) come down the fjord near Illulissat in the Baffin sea, but due to the weak bathymetry (250 m, however) they are stuck and slowly melt awaiting for starting a long trip toward North Atlantic. It is noticeable that in 15 years the glacier has flewed backward of 30 km because of the climate warming. It is time to take decisions !
This was an included excursion on our tour - a ride on the Ice Explorer which travels on ice that is 1,200 feet (365 metres) thick. We were able to walk on the glacier as well - an amazing experience.
Jökulsárlón es el mayor y más conocido lago glaciar de Islandia. Está situado en el extremo sur del glaciar Vatnajökull, entre el Parque nacional Skaftafell y la ciudad de Höfn
Una de sus características más llamativas es que se encuentra lleno de icebergs, que se desprenden de la lengua del glaciar Breiðamerkurjökull. Esto hace de Jökulsárlón probablemente el lugar del mundo en el que es más sencillo para acceder a un iceberg.
A wide glacier on way...Mount Nilgiri is not far away...taken on trek to Amritganga valley in Garhwal Himalayas, India
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The view from the hidden lake overlook is incredible. One of the best views in all of glacier, Only able to walk to the overlook, second part of the trial after the overlook is steeper, trail to the lake “must take bear spray” due to bear activity, forgot to take it, could not go further. View of the lake was amazing and definitely worth the hike.