On the western coast of Greenland, 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle, the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier—the most productive in the northern hemisphere—disgorges more than 38 billion tons of ice annually into an ice fjord. The large icebergs that calve off the glacier and float down this ice fjord—improbably called Disko Bay—toward the open sea create one of the great spectacles of the Arctic. The Icefjord Center provides a view of that spectacle. It is a short walk along a pathway from the outskirts of Ilulisat, an old whaling settlement of some 5,000 inhabitants, the third-largest town in Greenland.
The walk is along a track through low grassland that is covered in snow much of the year. The structure overlooks a small inland lake and stands where the track breaks into three paths, all of which lead into a UNESCO World Heritage site that includes the fjord and the glacier.
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