Historical Reference to Ice Islands

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Loewe, F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1971
• Subjects: Ice islands; Baffin Bay-Davis Strait; Cumberland Sound; Nunavut; Baffin Bay; Baffin Island; Dunbar; Ellesmere Island; Hattersley-Smith; Arctic; Baffin; Davis Strait
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66198

Some years ago M. Dunbar gave a detailed account of earlier ice reports which could refer to ice islands, as distinguished by G. Hattersley-Smith from other ice in the polar sea by their great unit area, thickness, structural strength and rolling relief. Among the old descriptions of 'floebergs...