Loss of multiyear landfast sea ice from Yelverton Bay, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

• Published in: Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
• Main Authors: Pope, S., Copland, L., Mueller, D.R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Canada; Yelverton Bay; Yelverton Inlet; Arctic Archipelago; glacier*; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://curve.carleton.ca/842cf6ac-2fae-4ba3-b554-d424a57f301d; https://doi.org/10.1657/1938-4246-44.2.210; http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1657/1938-4246-44.2.210

For much of the 20th century, multiyear landfast sea ice (MLSI) formed a permanent ice cover in Yelverton Bay, Ellesmere Island. This MLSI formed following the removal of ice shelf ice from Yelverton Bay in the early 1900s, including the well-documented Ice Island T-3. The MLSI cover survived intact...