Barnes Ice Cap

Barnes Ice Cap

The Barnes Ice Cap is an ice cap located in central Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It covers close to 6,000 km2 and has been thinning due to global warming. [http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=96564&sc=89 Halifax, The Daily News: Local News | Ice formation melting at alarming rate: scientists] ] Between 1970 and 1984, the ice cap thinned Unit m|1.7|0.

The ice cap is Canada's oldest ice, being approximately 20,000 years old. It is a remnant of the Laurentide ice sheet, which covered much of Canada during the last ice age.

ee also

*List of glaciers

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