Milne Ice Shelf

The Milne Ice Shelf, a fragment of the former Ellesmere Ice Shelf, is located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is the second largest ice shelf in the Arctic Ocean. Situated on the north-west coast of Ellesmere Island, it is about 270 km (170 mi) west of Alert, Nunavut.

Milne Ice Shelf
Type	Ice shelf
Location	Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
Coordinates	82°45′N 081°55′W
Area	290 km2 (110 sq mi) (1986)
Thickness	100 metres (330 ft) (1986)

In 1986, the ice shelf had an area of about 290 km² (110 sq mi), with a central thickness of 100 m (330 ft).^[1] It had been the last ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic to be fully intact until July 2020, when over 40 percent of the sheet collapsed within two days, a consequence of global warming. An uninhabited research camp was lost when the shelf collapsed. It included instruments for measuring water flow through the ice shelf.^[2][3]

References

1. Jeffries, Martin O. (1986). "Glaciers and the morphology and structure of Milne Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada". Arctic and Alpine Research. 18 (4). doi:10.2307/1551089. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
2. Warburton, Moira (6 August 2020). "Canada's last fully intact Arctic ice shelf collapses". Reuters. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
3. Funes, Yessenia (11 August 2020). "These Satellite Images Show the Final Days of Canada's Last Ice Shelf". Earther. Retrieved 11 August 2020.