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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Greenpeace's Nick Cobbing on the Arctic Sunrise at the Petermann & Humboldt Glacier in northern Greenland

Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise at the Petermann & Humboldt Glacier in northern Greenland

Awesome, must-see photos taken by members of the researchers on the Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise, up in the Nares Strait off the Petermann and Humboldt Glaciers which together account for 10% of the outflow of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/jul/20/greenpeace-arctic-impacts-expedition

For example, photo number 7:


The three scientists fit a radar transmitter, receiver and antennas to a chain of kayaks in order to survey a section of the Petermann Glacier in Greenland. Photograph: Nick Cobbing/Greenpeace



Or, photo number 11:



Images of the glacier's surface are captured by the 'heli-cam.' Photograph: Nick Cobbing/Greenpeace



Or, photo number 12 of the Humboldt Glacier:

Humboldt Glacier, which calves bergs into the Kane Basin in northern Greenland, is the widest glacier in the Northern Hemisphere, and measures 110 km across its face. The two glaciers that are both being studied by Greenpeace -- Humboldt and Petermann -- drain most of the ice from the northwestern part of the Greenland ice sheet. Between them, the two glaciers are responsible for 10% of the total ice drained from the Greenland ice sheet. Photograph: Nick Cobbing/Greenpeace


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