Watch the largest piece of ice ever recorded on video break off of a glacier


If the glacier moved in 10 years what it moved in 100, what will the next 10 years bring?

If the glacier moved in 10 years what it moved in 100, what will the next 10 years bring?

The public may now witness a once in a lifetime event thanks to Adam LeWinter and Jeff Orlowski for their film “Chasing Ice.”  Numerous cameras are placed in arctic areas to record events known as ‘calving.’  Massive swaths of ice regularly break away from glaciers, but the calving at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland was historic and the largest in recorded history.

Over a 75-minute span a three-mile-long and one-mile-wide chunk of ice that was 3,400 feet in height broke free.  To attempt to give the public an understanding of this, the section of ice which fell into the ocean was as large as the entire island of Manhattan.

From 1900 to 2000 the Ilulistate Glacier moved 8 miles.  From 2000 to 2010 the Ilulistate Glacier has moved 10 miles.