Greenland Coast

Along Greenland's eastern shore, fjords run inland from the Denmark Strait between islands and high rocky peninsulas. The Greenland ice sheet lies beyond the coast, sending glaciers toward the water through mountain valleys. The East Greenland Current carries sea ice and icebergs south past this coast; the amount of floating ice changes with the seasons and the winds. These waters lie between the Arctic and the northern Atlantic, where ice and open sea meet.