While the titanic project went full steam ahead, the iceberg that would sink it was going nowhere. It was stuck in the bottleneck at the shallow mouth of the Ilulissat fjord. play The Titanic ...

Air Greenland flies planes and helicopters to towns across the country, and from April to December, ferries run from Qaqortoq ...

The Ocean Endeavour is sailing toward a famous glacier near the Arctic town of Ilulissat. It's a route packed with dangerous icebergs, giving the ship's sonar and radar a tough workout. (04:00 ...

A new international airport will soon open in Greenland’s capital Nuuk, allowing larger aircraft to land for the first time - ...

Roughly half the loss has come from surface melt, the other half from an increase in the discharge of icebergs. From Kangerlussuaq, I flew to the town of Ilulissat, which is sometimes called the ...

Mathæussen lives in Ilulissat (Greenlandic for "icebergs"), a town of 4,500 people and almost that many sled dogs located 185 miles north of the Arctic Circle. On an overcast day in late June we ...

The tales of intrepid explorers such as Captain Sir John Franklin, who attempted to navigate this perilous waterway in 1845, ...

THE September Monthly Meteorological Ohart 01 the Indian Ocean, published by the British Meteorological Office, contains a most useful account of the icebergs of the Southern Ocean, as reported by ...

With a population of just under 5,000 people, Ilulissat is “rich in Inuit history” and is home to “millions of icebergs”. Low levels of light pollution and many clear nights will offer a good chance ...

And as for the fjord of Ilulissat, its icebergs are like nothing you’ll witness anywhere else on the planet. And that’s what makes this the cruise of a lifetime.

The captain alerted the passengers and crew that they would soon strike a largely invisible nearby iceberg. While certainly an excellent scene in the movie, the lessons learned from the ship’s ...