Camye the world's ancient icebergs

• Camye ancient icebergs in the world

The icebergs that are hundreds of years ago broke away from the mainland and still swim in the ocean - one of the most beautiful creations of nature. Each year hundreds of thousands of icebergs calve from glaciers slipping into the sea near the North and South Poles. Only 10% of the total volume of the iceberg can be seen on the water surface, and everything else is hidden under water. Some of the icebergs formed from lumps of snow, swim more than 30 thousand years.

Glaciers researcher Robert Gilmour, which happens every year in the Antarctic expeditions for the organization Polar Latitudes, said: "They are melting incredibly slow. And slowly moving, maximum - two knots depending on the tide. Icebergs vary greatly in appearance. Darker streaks on some of them may appear when ice water penetrates into the cavity and then freezes. Bluish icebergs older and smaller, so they do not refract light and it turns out a kind of optical illusion. "

Icebergs are melting summer night in the Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon in Iceland, under the cloudy sky reflected in the water.

This iceberg was taken by photographer Ralph Clevenger in Antarctica.

Storms sculpted bizarre sculpture of an iceberg off Greenland.

A colony of penguins in the Scotia Sea has transformed this ancient iceberg in the amusement park.

Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina.

Photographer Alex Cornell captured this banked iceberg off the coast of Antarctica. This effect is due to an internal imbalance of the iceberg.

Penguins on an iceberg in the Weddell Sea.

the flat-topped iceberg that is falling apart.

Large icebergs contain a lot of minerals and sediments brought by the wind, that look like layers, when they roll.

Iceberg off the coast of Isfjorden, Ilulissat, Greenland.

The speaker iceberg and its impressive part, visible through the transparent cold water.

When the sun came out, there was a beautiful haze off the coast glacier Sermeq kujalleq, the most prolific in the icebergs in the Northern Hemisphere.

Iceberg on the surface of Jökulsárlón.

Iceberg in the Inner Strait in Alaska.