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Glacier is a huge mass of ice. It is formed by the continuous deposition of snow and the transformation of that snow into ice. It is formed when the rate of deposition of snow is far greater than the rate of ablation. With the time, the ice transforms into sugar like granules. The granules grow larger with time and thus compress the air pockets present between them.

Miles and miles of glaciers long

Zodiacs landing on Gravneset approaching a new landing location.

Yellow tundra in the foreground with an old research station in the background.

We spent several hours walking across the rocky landscape to to discover magnificent new glaciers and ice fields. An ice fox ran across us as we were walking. I missed the photo shot of it.

The landscape is surreal.

Reflections in the water are magical.

The ice is huge that has broken off of the nearby glacier and washed on shore.

The glacier recedes many miles inland from where I am standing.

Ice that has broken off the main glacier through calving.

The glacier is close by and hundreds of feet high.

Glaciers appear blue in color. Rayleigh effect plays an important part in the blue appearance of a glacier much like it does in the appearance of the sky as blue.

The release of blue light comes from the sunlight. As the ice is transparent, it permits light to pass through. Before the ice allows light to pass through it, the ice crystals absorb light of longer wavelengths from the visible spectrum.

All of a sudden we see calving of the ice beginning from the glacier. Ice falling into the water in front of us.

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