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http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/260810_collapse_of_ancient_ellesmere_ice_shelf_stuns_scientists“The ice seems to be fracturing all over the Arctic once again”
This NASA image shows the section of the Ward Hunt ice shelf which recently broke off. (IMAGE/NASA)
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This NASA image shows the section of the Ward Hunt ice shelf which recently broke off. (IMAGE/NASA)
MARGARET MUNRO
POSTMEDIA NEWS
A huge chunk of ice about the size of Bermuda has cracked off Canada’s largest remaining Arctic ice shelf.
The ancient slab of ice, measuring about 50 square kilometres in area and almost 400 metres thick, broke away from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf on Ellesmere Island’s northern coast last week, the Canadian Ice Service said Aug. 25.
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The breakup points to the profound change underway in the Arctic and the accelerating loss of a unique and “majestic” part of Canada’s landscape, says John England, University of Alberta earth scientist.
The Ward Hunt is the largest of the remaining ice shelves that have clung to Ellesmere Island for 3,000 to 5,000 years. They contain the oldest sea ice in the northern hemisphere, England says, and have no counterpart in Greenland or Russia.
“They’re our California redwoods, they’re our pyramids, they’re a really unique, intriguing aspect of our Canadian landscape,” says England. “And they are disappearing.”
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