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Glacier Calf That Broke Off Greenland's Jakobshavn Could Be Largest Ever. The Jakobshavn glacier-Greenland's fastest-moving glacier located near Ilulissat-is seen in a NASA image taken by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite August 16, 2015.
Backcountry Splitboarding in Oregon and Beyond! Bend Glacier. The Bend Glacier is the largest of Broken Topâs two named glaciers, and is located on the north/northeast side of the mountain. Itâs meltwater feeds the headwaters of Squaw Creek, which eventually empties into the Deschutes River.
A glacier calf, or chunk of ice, measuring nearly five square miles broke away from Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier sometime in August, making it the largest piece to ever break away from one of the world's fastest melting glaciers. glacier, calf, iceberg, jakobshavn, greenland.
The ice island, which is about half the height of the Empire State Building, is the biggest piece of ice to break away from the Arctic icecap since 1962 and amounts to a quarter of the Petermann 70-kilometer floating ice shelf, according to research leader Andreas Muenchow.