Penny Ice Cap
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penny-ice-cap-197-1199052
title:
Penny Ice Cap
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The Penny Ice Cap, formerly Penny Icecap, is a 6,000 km2 (2,300 sq mi) ice cap in Auyuittuq National Park of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It forms a 2,000 m (6,562 ft) high barrier on the Cumberland Peninsula, an area of deep fjords and glaciated valleys. It is a remnant of the last ice age. During the mid-1990s, Canadian researchers studied the glacier's patterns of freezing and thawing over centuries by drilling ice core samples. The ice cap has been thinning and its valley glaciers have be
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Ice cap in Nunavut, Canada
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Ice_Cap
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2023-11-02T01:43:58Z
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