Penny Ice Cap

Penny Ice Cap

Infobox_Glacier | glacier_name = Penny Ice Cap



caption = The Penny Ice Cap
type = Icecap
location = Nunavut, Canada
coordinates = coord|67|15|00|N|66|00|00|W|type:glacier
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terminus = outflow glaciers
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The Penny Ice Cap is a vast, 6,000 km2 ice cap in Auyuittuq National Park of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It forms a Unit m|2000|0 high barrier on the Cumberland Peninsula, an area of deep fiords and glaciated valleys. It is a remnant of the last ice age. During the mid 1990s, Canadian researchers studied the glacier's patterns of freezing and thawing over centuries by drilling ice core samples. [ [http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/60421/news/nunavut/60421_08.html Nunatsiaq News: Penney Ice Cap shrinking like the rest?] ]

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