Don Theye's pictures...
Don Theye's pictures...

 

 

Unknown personnel. Bergs in background broken off from glacier.....

Picture is taken at a point north from J-site, the glacier behind the personnel is the Rasmussen Glacier.

One of the most active places, is the Wolstenholme fjord, witch is located north of Thule air base. It’s a fjord, covering an area on approx. 950 Sq. miles. This Fjord is of some, called the biggest ice machine in the world. There are 4 big glaciers, which ends up in the same fjord.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Width Lenght
The Salisbury Glacier approx. 1.477 feet approx. 10.665 feet
The Champerlin Glacier approx. 2.690 feet approx. 26.900 feet
The Knud Rasmussen Glacier approx. 2.950 feet approx. 11.485 feet
The Harald Moltke Glacier approx. 5.085 feet approx. 17.390 feet

The Force which get the glaciers moving, is created by the fact, that the icecap each year, get thicker, in fact of summer, and winter, and thereby get more and more heavy. Ice is like plastic, so it got to get out again, one or another way and that’s what get glaciers moving. The age of the ice, which get bounced out in the fjord, is very old, because it’s the first ice, coming out, so the ice is approx. 100,000 years old. The reason, why there are blue and white icebergs, is because, if an iceberg comes from the icecap, and thereby is frozen fresh water, then the color is blue, contrary sea icebergs, which are white of that reason, of the salt in the water.

 

  

Updated. mar.14.2006