Part of the icy landscape of the Northeast Greenland National Park is pictured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
Lying in the North Atlantic Ocean, Greenland is the world’s largest island and is home to the Northeast Greenland National Park, the largest national park in the world. The park covers 972,000 square kilometers, which is almost the area of Spain and France combined, with about 80% of its territory permanently under the mighty Greenland Ice Sheet, the world’s second largest ice sheet after Antarctica.
In this summer image, the color of soil varies from light to dark brown, ice and snow appear in shades of white, while the different blue tones indicate water.
The large blue area on the right is Dove Bay, which appears partly free from ice, with seasonal breakup fractures due to currents and wind.
North of the bay, on the southern shore of the Germania Land Peninsula, visible in the top right corner, lies the Danmarkshavn weather station, where the permanent six-man team collects meteorological data used in international weather forecasting models. Danmarkshavn is one of the most isolated inhabited stations in the world. It is also known as the northernmost place on Greenland’s east coast accessible to non-icebreaking vessels, depending on ice conditions.
Image Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2024), processed by ESA
