ENDANGERED SPECIES
August 2024, under the midnight sun of the Arctic summer
I traveled to the Ilulissat Icefjord in western Greenland.
This stunning area, located 250 km north of the Arctic Circle.
Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004, due to its
natural beauty and the significance of the fast-moving
Jakobshavn Glacier also known as Sermeq Kujalleq.
Studied by scientist for over 150 years, the glacier has helped
develop modern understanding of climate change.
It is is one of the fastest declining glaciers in the world
and is responsible for 4% of the increase in global sea level.
On the way home I went to Iceland’s Jökulsárlón Glacier lagoon
where the icebergs calve from Europes largest Glacier,
the Vatnajökull Glacier,
The Icebergs flow out to sea, where the Atlantic ocean erodes them,
and they wash ashore like large diamonds.
Experts predict that more than a third of the world’s remaining
glaciers will melt by 2100.
I was both inspired and energised by the mass, shape, and scale of these floating monoliths of ice
that are thousands of years old and their obvious role in the well being of our planet
