یک جزیره ی یخی با وسعت حدود صد مایل مربع از یکی از دو یخچال طبیعی اصلی گرینلند جدا شده است که این رخداد در پنجاه سال گذشته بی سابقه بوده است. این قطعه یخی در حال حاضر بین گرینلند و کانادا در حرکت است. کارشناسان معتقدند که این جزیره ی یخی ممکن است به قطعات کوچکتری بشکند و در صورتی حرکت به سمت جنوب مشکلاتی را برای تردد کشتی ها ایجاد کند.

The Guardian, Saturday 7 August 2010 

An ice island with an area of 100 square miles has broken off from one of Greenland's two main glaciers in what scientists say is the biggest such event in the Arctic in nearly 50 years.

The huge chunk of ice, which is 600ft thick, broke off the Petermann Glacier, located about 620 miles south of the North Pole, on Thursday.

It is now drifting in a remote area called the Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada.

Andreas Muenchow, professor of ocean science and engineering at the University of Delaware, said satellite images have revealed that the glacier has lost about a quarter of its 43-mile-long floating ice shelf.

The last time such a large ice island formed was in 1962 when the Canadian Ward Hunt Ice Shelf calved an island. Smaller pieces of that chunk became lodged between real islands inside the Nares Strait.

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