Heritage List

• Main Authors: Jakobshavn Isbræ, Sermeq Kujalleq Ilulissat, Sermeq Kujalleq, Anker Weidick, Naja Mikkelsen, Christoph Mayer, Steffen Podlech
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Greenland; Ilulissat; Isfjord; Jakobshavn Isfjord; Kujalleq; Davis Strait; Disko bugt; glacier; Jakobshavn; Kangia; Sermeq Kujalleq
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.573.3295; http://www.geus.dk/publications/bull/nr4/nr4_p85-88.pdf

Isbræ) is situated at about 69°10′N and 50°00′W in West Greenland. This major outlet from the Inland Ice has an extremely high rate of movement (nearly 1 m/hour) and thus a high production of icebergs, which via the icefjord float westwards through Disko Bugt to Davis Strait (Fig. 1). Estimates of the iceberg production are in the range of 35 ± 10 km3 ice per year, more than 10 % of the entire calf-ice pro-duction of the Inland Ice (e.g. Bauer l968; Bindschadler 1984). The icefjord into which Sermeq Kujalleq calves is Kangia, best known in glaciological literature as Jakobshavn Isfjord. Spectacular changes of the glacier were observed dur-ing 2002 and 2003 at the same time as it was nominated for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List under the name ‘Ilulissat Icefjord’. Nomination of ‘Ilulissat Icefjord ’ and