West Greenland is not just green. Buildings in the town of Ilulissat are as colourful as red, blue, orange, purple and yellow crayons. They face Disko Bay, which brims with dazzling white and menthol-blue icebergs. Most of these fanciful ice sculptures calved off the Sermeq Kujalleq Glacier. The most prolific glacier in the Northern Hemisphere, it generates so many icebergs that, if melted, they would supply NewYork City with water for one year.They flow from the glacier along the 60-kilometre-long Ilulissat Icefjord just south of the town into the North Atlantic. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the fjord stretches from the Greenland Ice Cap (which covers 80% of Greenland’s land area) to Disko Bay. We arrived in Ilulissat on an Adventure Canada High Arctic Explorer cruise which departed fromKangerlussuaq, a former U.S. military base. Charter flights from Toronto brought us to Kangerlussuaq Airport – Greenland’s primary flight hub. Before boarding our ship to cruise north to Ilulissat, we photographed an airport sign that showed flying times to places around the world. We were six hours and 45 minutes from Los Angeles, but only three hours and 15 minutes from the North Pole! Greenland to Canadian Arctic Archipelago Cruise Discover friendly communities, fascinating cultures and intriguing history on this scenic High Arctic journey Story and photos © Barb & Ron Kroll 14 | www.snowbirds.org Travel
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