# Agassiz Ice Cap

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Ice cap in Nunavut, Canada

Agassiz Ice Cap Agassiz Ice Cap Agassiz Ice Cap Location within Nunavut Type Ice cap Location Nunavut, Canada Coordinates 80°15′N 076°00′W / 80.250°N 76.000°W / 80.250; -76.000

The **Agassiz Ice Cap** formerly **Agassiz Glacier**[1] is an [ice cap](/source/Ice_cap) on the central eastern side of [Ellesmere Island](/source/Ellesmere_Island), [Nunavut](/source/Nunavut), Canada.[2] The Agassiz ice cap is about 21,000 km2 (8,100 sq mi) in area.[2] It is located between the North Ellesmere ice field to the north and the [Prince of Wales Icefield](/source/Prince_of_Wales_Mountains) to the south.

## Environmental studies

Several studies have been conducted which involve the analysis of [ice cores](/source/Ice_core) extracted from the Agassiz Ice cap.[3] Many of these studies are focused around [climate change](/source/Climate_change).[4]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Agassiz Ice Cap (Formerly Agassiz Glacier)](http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/38b2bca9c6ce11d892e2080020a0f4c9)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Wolken_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Wolken_2-1) Wolken, G.; Sharp, M.; Wang, L. (2009). ["Snow and ice facies variability and ice layer formation on Canadian Arctic ice caps, 1999-2005"](http://arctic.eas.ualberta.ca/downloads/Wolken%20et%20al_2009_Snow%20and%20ice%20facies%20variability%20and%20ice%20layer%20formation%20in%20the%20QEI%201999-2005.pdf) (PDF). *Journal of Geophysical Research*. **114** (F3). [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2009JGRF..114.3011W](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009JGRF..114.3011W). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1029/2008JF001173](https://doi.org/10.1029%2F2008JF001173).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Goto-Azuma](/source/Kumiko_Goto-Azuma), Kumiko; Koerner, Roy M.; Nakawo, Masayoshi; Kudo, Akira (1997). ["Snow chemistry of Agassiz Ice Cap, Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, Canada"](https://web.archive.org/web/20240216164446/https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/90623/files/fulltext.pdf) (PDF). *Journal of Glaciology*. **43** (144): 199–206. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.3189/S0022143000003154](https://doi.org/10.3189%2FS0022143000003154). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0022-1430](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0022-1430). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [126563293](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:126563293). Archived from [the original](https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/90623/files/fulltext.pdf) (PDF) on February 16, 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Lecavalier, Benoit S.; Fisher, David A.; Milne, Glenn A.; Vinther, Bo M.; Tarasov, Lev; Huybrechts, Philippe; Lacelle, Denis; Main, Brittany; Zheng, James; Bourgeois, Jocelyne; Dyke, Arthur S. (2017-06-06). ["High Arctic Holocene temperature record from the Agassiz ice cap and Greenland ice sheet evolution"](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5468641). *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences*. **114** (23): 5952–5957. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2017PNAS..114.5952L](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017PNAS..114.5952L). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1073/pnas.1616287114](https://doi.org/10.1073%2Fpnas.1616287114). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0027-8424](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0027-8424). [PMC](/source/PMC_(identifier)) [5468641](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5468641). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [28512225](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28512225).

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