{{Short description|Ice shelf in the Arctic Ocean}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox glacier | child = | name = Milne Ice Shelf | other_name = | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | map = Canada Nunavut<!-- or | map_image = --> | map_size = | map_alt = | map_caption = | type = [[Ice shelf]] | location = [[Ellesmere Island]], [[Nunavut]], Canada | coordinates = {{coord|82|45|N|081|55|w |region:CA-NU_type:waterbody |display=inline,title}} | coords_ref = | area = {{convert|290|km2|abbr=on}} (1986) | length = | width = | thickness = {{convert|100|m}} (1986) | elevation_max = | elevation_min = | terminus = | status = | embedded = }} The '''Milne Ice Shelf''', a fragment of the former [[Ellesmere Ice Shelf]], is located in the [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]], [[Nunavut]], Canada. It is the second largest [[ice shelf]] in the [[Arctic Ocean]]. Situated on the north-west coast of [[Ellesmere Island]], it is about {{convert|270|km|abbr=on}} west of [[Alert, Nunavut]].
In 1986, the ice shelf had an area of about {{convert|290|km2|abbr=on}}, with a central thickness of {{convert|100|m|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/pss/1551089 |title=Glaciers and the morphology and structure of Milne Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada |first=Martin O. |last=Jeffries |journal=Arctic and Alpine Research |volume=18 |issue=4 |date=1986 |doi=10.2307/1551089 |access-date=26 October 2022|url-access=subscription }}</ref> It had been the last ice shelf in the [[Northern Canada|Canadian Arctic]] to be fully intact until July 2020, when over 40 percent of the sheet collapsed within two days, a consequence of [[climate change in the Arctic|global warming]]. An uninhabited research camp was lost when the shelf collapsed. It included instruments for measuring water flow through the ice shelf.<ref>{{Cite news|date=6 August 2020|title=Canada's last fully intact Arctic ice shelf collapses|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-canada-idUSKCN2523JH |first=Moira |last=Warburton|access-date=7 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Funes |first1=Yessenia |title=These Satellite Images Show the Final Days of Canada's Last Ice Shelf |url=https://earther.gizmodo.com/these-satellite-images-show-the-final-days-of-canadas-l-1844685211 |accessdate=11 August 2020 |work=Earther |date=11 August 2020 |language=en-us}}</ref>
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[[Category:Ice shelves of the Qikiqtaaluk Region]]
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