Reflections at Kuuniataaq (near Ilulissat, Greenland)
by Fien De Doncker, Université de Lausanne
A soft wind breeze makes ripples in an otherwise silent soundscape. A careful listener can hear the trickling of melting ice joining the saline seawater. The sun seems in a never-ending doubt between rising or setting, casting large shadows even in the middle of the day, stretching and wrinkling my conceptions of time. Not only time is difficult to grasp here, but also distances when the only available scaling objects are icebergs of all forms and shapes.
Dark lines in icebergs carry remnants of the biggest island in the world that is steadily torn apart by its icy cover; rounded rocks stand out as evidence of a wounded victim in a sea filled with ghosts of its robbers.
Taken in
September
2020
Submitted on 15 Mar 2021
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- Exact location (-51.0619 W, 69.1990 N)
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Credit: Fien De Doncker (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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