Ward Hunt Ice Shelf
ice shelf, Canada
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The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, located on Canada's Ellesmere Island, was a significant source of ice islands. These ice islands, which could be up to 30 km long but only about 60 meters thick, calved from the ice shelf. However, the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has been retreating, breaking into pieces faster than new ice can form, and has virtually disappeared since the 1950s. In 2008, large portions of the Ward-Hunt ice shelf calved into icebergs.12
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