Ice islands: their presence in the North Atlantic Ocean
Ice islands are extremely large icebergs that break off the ice shelves of Ellesmere Island and the glaciers of Greenland. A percentage of the ice islands will make their way south via the Nares Strait and drift with the Labrador current off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. The content of thi...
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