Whitehouse in Greenland

This is a picture from Senator Whitehouse’s trip to Greenland this past weekend. It is taken in Ilulissat Icefjord, where there is very loud and fast-moving glacial ice stream. From the UNESCO World Heritage website’s description:

The combination of a huge ice sheet and a fast moving glacial ice-stream calving into a fjord covered by icebergs is a phenomenon only seen in Greenland and Antarctica. Ilulissat offers both scientists and visitors easy access for close view of the calving glacier front as it cascades down from the ice sheet and into the ice-choked fjord. The wild and highly scenic combination of rock, ice and sea, along with the dramatic sounds produced by the moving ice, combine to present a memorable natural spectacle.

More information about on the Ilulissat Icefjord is available here.