Petermann Ice Island 'A' survey results, offshore labrador

• Main Authors: Halliday, E.J. (E. Julie), King, T. (Tony), Bobby, P. (Pradeep), Copland, L. (Luke), Mueller, D. (Derek)
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Baffin Bay; Canada; Greenland; Newfoundland; Rigolet; Baffin; glacier; glacier*; Petermann glacier
• Online Access: https://ir.library.carleton.ca/pub/7062

In August 2010 a 265 km2 ice island calved from the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland. Soon after the initial calving event the mass broke into several pieces, some of which exited Baffin Bay and drifted south toward the Labrador coast. By June 2011 PII-A, a large fragment of the initial Peter...