Aerial views of thinning ice sheet in Greenland. The second largest body of ice in the world (covering 1,710,000 square kilometres or roughly 80% of the surface of Greenland), it is rapidly melting at a rate of average 195 cubic kilometers (47 cu mi) per year.

In addition to the large ice sheet, isolated glaciers and small ice caps cover between 76,000 and 100,000 square kilometres around the periphery.

If the entire 2,850,000 km3 (684,000 cu mi) of ice were to melt, global sea levels would rise 7.2 m (24 ft).