After leaving the bear, we stayed in this High Arctic area and went to view Austfonna, one of the largest icecaps in the world. It covers over 8,105 km2 of the island of Nordaustlandet and flows down to the sea forming a 150 km long ice cliff, which is 10-35m high. It doesn’t look so big from a distance, but when you meander right up to it in a ship it is huge and massive. You could almost stick your arm out and touch it. Fascination. There were a few small meltwater streams flowing off of it and creating little waterfalls. Later in the summer, these will be more significant flowing streams (Frozen Planet filmed this phenomena at the same location).
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