Greenland. Freja Fjord

This camera “on the edge of the world” is installed by the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics of Austria (ZAMG) and is used mostly for the scientific research of the Greenland Freja Fjord. But, for ordinary viewers, there is something to see.

We are located in the northeast of Greenland, on Clavering Island in Gael Hamkes Bay. The first Europeans appeared on this island in the beginning of the 18th century, and the name of one of the discoverers gave the island its name. Commander Douglas Charles Clavering found the bones of extinct musk oxen on these islands, as well as a small squad of Eskimos. By 1899, when the local population completely died out, the population of musk oxen revived.

The camera is installed at an altitude of 870 meters above sea level, and the highest point of the island of Clavering is at an altitude of 1,650 meters. Thanks to the data from the camera, it was possible to find out that, today, the glacier loses about one and a half meters in the thickness of its ice annually. The maximum ice thickness of Freja Fjord is 200 meters.