
Массивные ледяные глыбы сползают в него с местного пятикилометрового в ширину ледника Сермек-Куджаллек, являющегося одним из самых продуктивных в Северном полушарии. Форма и размер айсбергов, дрейфующих на фоне разноцветных городских домов одноимённого с фьордом города Илулиссата (второе название – Якобсхван), отличается богатым разнообразием. Здесь можно встретить как самые причудливые, так и самые большие айсберги в мире.
Движение льда по фьорду сопровождается необычными скрежещущими звуками. В сочетании с отражающимся от ледовой поверхности солнцем они создают оригинальную сюрреалистическую картину.




The fjord located in the west of Greenland Ilulissat represents the gulf, forty-kilometer on the area filled with numerous icebergs, in Greenland – "ilulissatam".
Massive ice blocks slip in it from the local glacier, five-kilometer in width, Sermek-Kudzhallek which is one of the most productive in the Northern hemisphere. The form and the size of the icebergs drifting against multi-colored town houses of the city of Ilulissat, of the same name with the fjord (the second name – Yakobskhvan), differs in a rich variety. Here it is possible to meet as the most freakish, and the biggest icebergs in the world.
The movement of ice on the fjord is followed by the unusual gnashing sounds. In combination with the sun which is reflected from an ice surface they create an original surrealistic picture.
Annually thousands of tourists come to Ilulissat to admire local ice beauty. Scientists and ecologists too don't leave the fjord the attention: on it they study more than two hundred fifty years history and dynamics of further development of Earth.
Since 2004 the fjord Ilulissat is protected by UNESCO as natural object of the World value.
Persons interested to take pleasure in beauty and greatness of a northern country can stop in the city of Ilulissat. From here excursions on ice caves and boat rounds on the fjord begin. In the city of Greenland, the third on population formed in the XVIII century by the Danish missionaries there are two museums: Art and Museum of Cold. Ilulissat – Knud Rasmussen's homeland, one of the most famous researchers of the Arctic. There is its House museum open for visits by everyone.