Prince Christian Sound, Greenland
© Posnov/Getty Image
Prince Christian Sound, Greenland
The sheer size of Greenland is hard to put in perspective. The world’s largest island is more than 2 million square kilometres in size. It is a land of deep fjords and ice that must have made the Norse explorers who landed there a thousand years ago feel right at home. Today we find ourselves at the southern tip of Greenland, in Prince Christian Sound, a long, narrow fjord system 95 kilometres long, at times as narrow as 457 metres across. It flows through steep canyons of granite that soar over 365 metres above. The placid calm of these waters is frequently disrupted by calving glaciers, breaching whales and the cruise ships that visit the region. The only human habitation in this frozen landscape is the Inuit village of Aappilattoq, home to about 100 people.
Related Images
Aerial of the Amazon River Basin near Manaus, Brazil
Mount Fuji and twin rocks (Ushitukiiwa) in Matsuzaki, Japan
A thunderstorm rolls across the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota
Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state
Hope Valley, Peak District, England
Canberra’s National Carillon at dawn
The shoreline of Cahuita National Park, in Costa Rica
Winter at the Isis Temple in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Bing Today Images
