The Qoroq Glacier is located 3 hours by boat North of Ilulissat/Jakobshavn, not far North of Rodebay on the Western coast of Greenland. The ice wall towards the water is 100 meters or 300 feet high. It is 5 kilometers or 3.1 miles from edge to edge.
The French polar scientist Paul-Emilie Victor came to Eqi several times after World War II to conduct research projects related to the inland ice, because the area around Eqi was the easiest place from which to get heavy equipment onto the inland ice.
This glacier is extraordinary because you can get very close to the calving itself. You actually have to be careful not to get too close and get capsized by waves from ice breaking off the glacier and dropping into the water. Local boats keep a 500 meter minimum distance for safety.
If you have visited the Norwegian "Svartisen" glacier, Norway's second largest glacier, called "Black ice" because its color is darker than ice normally is, then you wonder what the Norwegians would call the Eqi glacier, which is an even darker blue.
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16/10 – Gargano Peninsula, Puglia's Best Beach (Italy)
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28/09 – El Quebrachal, un àarea destinada a preservar los montes de quebracho colorado.
15/10 – Eqi Glacier (Greenland)
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28/09 – El Quebrachal, un àarea destinada a preservar los montes de quebracho colorado.
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