# Milne Ice Shelf

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Ice shelf in the Arctic Ocean

Milne Ice Shelf Milne Ice Shelf Location within Nunavut Type Ice shelf Location Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada Coordinates 82°45′N 081°55′W / 82.750°N 81.917°W / 82.750; -81.917 Area 290 km2 (110 sq mi) (1986) Thickness 100 metres (330 ft) (1986)

The **Milne Ice Shelf**, a fragment of the former [Ellesmere Ice Shelf](/source/Ellesmere_Ice_Shelf), is located in the [Qikiqtaaluk Region](/source/Qikiqtaaluk_Region), [Nunavut](/source/Nunavut), Canada. It is the second largest [ice shelf](/source/Ice_shelf) in the [Arctic Ocean](/source/Arctic_Ocean). Situated on the north-west coast of [Ellesmere Island](/source/Ellesmere_Island), it is about 270 km (170 mi) west of [Alert, Nunavut](/source/Alert%2C_Nunavut).

In 1986, the ice shelf had an area of about 290 km2 (110 sq mi), with a central thickness of 100 m (330 ft).[1] It had been the last ice shelf in the [Canadian Arctic](/source/Northern_Canada) to be fully intact until July 2020, when over 40 percent of the sheet collapsed within two days, a consequence of [global warming](/source/Climate_change_in_the_Arctic). An uninhabited research camp was lost when the shelf collapsed. It included instruments for measuring water flow through the ice shelf.[2][3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Jeffries, Martin O. (1986). ["Glaciers and the morphology and structure of Milne Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada"](https://www.jstor.org/pss/1551089). *Arctic and Alpine Research*. **18** (4). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2307/1551089](https://doi.org/10.2307%2F1551089). Retrieved 26 October 2022.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Warburton, Moira (6 August 2020). ["Canada's last fully intact Arctic ice shelf collapses"](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-canada-idUSKCN2523JH). *Reuters*. Retrieved 7 August 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Funes, Yessenia (11 August 2020). ["These Satellite Images Show the Final Days of Canada's Last Ice Shelf"](https://earther.gizmodo.com/these-satellite-images-show-the-final-days-of-canadas-l-1844685211). *Earther*. Retrieved 11 August 2020.

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