| Barnes Ice Cap | |
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 Sentinel-2 image (2019) | |
  Location in Nunavut, Canada | |
| Type | Ice cap |
| Location | Baffin Island |
| Coordinates | 70°00′N 73°30′W / 70.000°N 73.500°W / 70.000; -73.500 |
The Barnes Ice Cap is an ice cap located in central Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
Geography
It covers close to 6,000 km (2,300 sq mi) in the area of the Baffin Mountains. It has been thinning due to regional warming. Between 2004 and 2006, the ice cap was thinning at a rate of 1 m (3 ft 3 in) per year.
The ice cap contains Canada's oldest ice, some of it being over 20,000 years old. It is a remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, which covered much of Canada during the last glacial period of the Earth's current ice age. Generator Lake is located at the southeastern end of the ice cap.
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See also
References
- Sneed, William; Hooke, Roger; Hamilton, Gordon (January 2008), "Thinning of the south dome of Barnes Ice Cap, Arctic Canada, over the past two decades", GeoScienceWorld, v.36, no. 1 (1): 71–74, Bibcode:2008Geo....36...71S, doi:10.1130/G24013A.1
- "Canada's oldest ice formation melting at alarming rate, scientists say" (Press release). CanWest News Service. Jan 9, 2008. Archived from the original on 2011-05-11. Retrieved Jan 6, 2010.
- "Barnes Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Canada". NASA Earth Observatory. 2010-10-04. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
A remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet that sprawled over North America during the Pleistocene Age, the Barnes Ice Cap is a bowling-pin-shaped glacier on Canada's Baffin Island.
- NRCan - Generator Lake
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