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)
The impressive Johns Hopkins glacier in Glacier Bay National Park is spectacular to see. Enormous sheaths of ice tinged with sapphire blue waiting to break off into Johns Hopkins Inlet.
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.
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 !
Le Vatnajökull est une des plus grandes calottes glacières d'Europe sous laquelle plusieurs volcans sont actifs
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.
The Upsala Glacier is located near the northern arm of Lago Argentino within the Los Glaciers National Park. At fifty kilometers long, ten kilometers wide, it is classified as one of three major glaciers in the park. The beauty of the Upsala glacier is undeniable.
This glacier possesses one of the most significant medial moraines in South America. A moraine is a collection of rock, sand, and clay deposits that has fallen from neighboring mountains and is transported by the slow movements of glacial ice sheets. Over time, these accumulations grow, boldly marking the direction of glacial flow. While there are many types of moraines, the Upsala glacier has formed a medial moraine, which appears when more than two glaciers unite and bring together debris from multiple sources.
Upsala Glacier is only accessible by boat.
The Aletsch Glacier or Great Aletsch Glacier is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km (14 mi) (2014), has about a volume of 15.4 km3, and covers about 81.7 km2 (31.5 square miles) in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais. The Aletsch Glacier is composed of four smaller glaciers converging at Concordia Place, where its thickness was measured by the ETH to be still near 1 km (3,300 ft). It then continues towards the Rhône valley before giving birth to the Massa. The Aletsch Glacier is – like most glaciers on this world – a retreating glacier. As of 2016, since 1980 it lost 1.3 kilometres (0.81 mi) of its length, since 1870 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi), and lost also more than 300 metres (980 ft) of its thickness.
The whole area, including other glaciers is part of the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
The glacier is 350 ft high above the waterline and large chunks of ice are constantly breaking off to create small icebergs. It is 76 miles from its source to the sea.
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2014 Iceland
The glacier of Svinafellskull slowly slides between the mountains to melt into a small turquoise lagoon
Covering 3.3 million acres of rugged mountains, dynamic glaciers, temperate rainforest, wild coastlines and deep sheltered fjords, Glacier Bay National Park is a highlight of Alaska's Inside Passage and part of a 25-million acre World Heritage Site—one of the world’s largest international protected areas.