The Drift of Ice Island WH-5

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Nutt, David C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1966
• Subjects: Breakup; Calving (Ice); Ice islands; Ice shelves; Icebergs; Movement; Ocean currents; Water masses; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay-Davis Strait; Labrador Sea; Nares Strait; Greenland/Nunavut; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; Nunavut; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Baie de Baffin; Détroit de Nares; Détroit de Smith; Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Kane; Lent; Nares; Newfoundland; Smith Sound; Arctique*; Baffin; Davis Strait; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*; Kane Basin; Nares strait; Smith sound; Terre-Neuve
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66482

Summarizes the final documentation of this drift from its calving from Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, North Ellesmere Island, winter 1961-62 until sightings of the remaining fragments in waters of Labrador and Newfoundland, summer 1964. The drift south from the Arctic Ocean indicates that the southward water...