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Greenland Ice Sheet Unmissables

The Greenland Ice Sheet covers approximately 1.7 million square kilometers, representing the second-largest body of ice on Earth. This collection highlights the primary gateway at Kangerlussuaq and Punkt 660, one of the few places where the ice edge is accessible by land vehicles. It features significant geographical landmarks like the 2,975-meter Petermann Peak and Brückner Glacier, alongside critical scientific outposts such as Summit Station and the North GRIP drilling site, which provide essential data for global climate research.

Greenland Ice Sheet Unmissables — Map

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Greenland Ice Sheet

The Greenland ice sheet is a vast body of ice covering 1,710,000 square kilometres, roughly near 80% of the surface of Greenland.

NASA / Michael Studinger / Public domain

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Kangerlussuaq Sondre Stromfjord (SFJ)

Kangerlussuaq Airport is an airport in Kangerlussuaq, a settlement in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland.

United States Air Force / Public domain

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Camp Raven

A seasonal research station on the inland ice sheet, primarily used between April and October for training LC-130 flight crews in ski-landing operations.

Clemens Stockner / CC BY-SA 4.0

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Brückner Glacier

Bruckner Glacier, is a glacier in eastern Greenland.

Defense Mapping Agency Aerospace… / Public domain

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Petermann Peak

Petermann Peak,, also known as Petermann Fjeld, Petermanns Topp and Petermann Point is a mountain in King Christian X Land, Northeast…

Algkalv / CC BY-SA 3.0

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Anoritooq

Anoritooq is a nunatak in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland.

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Punkt 660

Located at the end of a gravel road from Kangerlussuaq, this site serves as a rare accessible entry point for walking directly onto the surface of the ice sheet.

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Gisp Ice Landing Strip

A remote landing site established to support the Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP), an international research effort focused on extracting deep ice cores for climate analysis.

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Summit Ice Landingstrip

Serving the year-round Summit Station at the highest point of the ice sheet, this strip supports atmospheric research at an elevation of over 3,200 meters.

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North Grip Ice Landingstrip

The logistics base for the North Greenland Ice Core Project, where researchers drilled over 3,000 meters deep to retrieve climate records from the Eemian period.