Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark is one of the most popular natural World Heritage Site in the world. Ilulissat Icefjord is located within the Arctic Circle on the west coast of Greenland in the bay of Disko Bugt.

Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark is protected and conserved by an established framework of government legislation and protective designations and by the various local planning rules and regulations. The1980 Nature Conservation Act was meant to enable protection of species, and ecosystems.  It has been stated that to preserve Ilulissat Icefjord, mining is prohibited within the Protected Area.

Ilulissat Icefjord in Denmark is a giant tidewater ice-stream, located 1,000 kilometers up the west coast of Greenland. The Icefjord is one of the few glaciers through which the ice of the Greenland ice cap reaches the sea. The Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark is the second fastest and most prolific of ice-calving tidewater glaciers in Greenland.

The surroundings of the area include low heavily glaciated Pre-Cambrian gneiss and amphibolite rocks extending some 50 kilometers inland to the ice cap. In addition, there are ice-dammed lakes, lakelets, glacial striations, roches moutonees, and perched glaciated landscapes.

The Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark is the only remnant in the Northern Hemisphere of the continental ice sheets of the last Quaternary Ice Age. The ice cap’s oldest ice is estimated to be about 250,000 years old.

Ilulissat Icefjord is located above the Arctic Circle and consists of sunless winters and night less summers, of 2 to 3 months long. The flora of the area is of low-arctic type, typical of the nutrient-poor silicaceous soil.