Studies of Ice Movements on the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf by Means of Triangulation-Trilateration

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Konecny, G., Faig, W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1966
• Subjects: Deglaciation; Glaciation; Sea level; Sparbo; Cape; region; Nunavut; Skogn; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; Ward Hunt Island; Arctic; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66489

Ward Hunt Island is surrounded by more than 2000 sq km of ice shelf. In 1964 and 1965 the University of New Brunswick Department of Surveying Engineering made a survey of the ice shelf in which geodimeter distance measurements and angular theodolite measurements were combined in a system of triangul...