Greenland Coast

Greenland's east coast faces the Denmark Strait across waters often visited by drifting ice. The cold East Greenland Current carries pack ice and icebergs southward along a shore of steep mountains, islands and deeply branching fjords. The ice does not remain fixed: winds and currents change its extent and the openings available to ships. Behind the rocky coastal fringe the inland ice sheet covers the greater part of Greenland, feeding glaciers that reach toward the sea.