Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ilulissat Icefjord' has mentioned 'Glacier' in the following places:
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At its eastern end is the Jakobshavn Isbrxc3xa6 glacier (Greenlandic: Sermeq Kujalleq), the most productive glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. | WIKI |
The glacier flows at a rate of 20xe2x80x9335xc2xa0m (66xe2x80x93115xc2xa0ft) per day, resulting in around 20xc2xa0billion tonnes of icebergs calved off and passing out of the fjord every year. | WIKI |
Icebergs breaking from the glacier are often so large xe2x80x94up to a kilometer (3,300xc2xa0ft) in heightxe2x80x94 that they are too tall to float down the fjord and lie stuck on the bottom of its shallower areas, sometimes for years, until they are broken up by the force of the glacier and icebergs further up the fjord. | WIKI |
Located on the west coast of Greenland, 250 km north of the Arctic Circle, Greenlandxe2x80x99s Ilulissat Icefjord is a tidal fjord covered with floating brash and massive ice, as it is situated where the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier calves ice into the sea. | UNESCO |
10% of all Greenland calf ice, is more than any other glacier outside Antarctica, and it is still actively eroding the fjord bed. | UNESCO |
Ilulissat offers both scientists and visitors easy access for a close view of the calving glacier front as it cascades down from the ice sheet and into the ice-choked fjord. | UNESCO |
Its annual calving of over 46 km3 of ice accounts for 10% of the production of all Greenland calf ice, more than any other glacier outside Antarctica. | UNESCO |
The glacier has been the object of scientific attention for 250 years and, along with its relative ease of accessibility, has significantly added to the understanding of ice-cap glaciology, climate change and related geomorphic processes. | UNESCO |