Off the coast of Greenland lies an island resembling a bony claw. Long connected to Greenland’s coast by ice, the island escaped recognition for what it was for nearly a century.
Published Jun 3, 2007
A massive ice island is lingering off the coast of Labrador, Canada, after an 11-month journey from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland.
Published Jul 2, 2011
Petermann Ice Island A still behaves like the massive ice sheet it left 14 months ago.
Published Sep 17, 2011
Acquired March 9, 2012, and July 22, 2012, these images show stark differences between winter and summer on Canada’s Bylot Island.
Published Nov 30, 2012
Acquired July 27, 2011, this natural-color image shows the ice island PII-A off the coasts of Labrador and Newfoundland.
Published Jul 28, 2011
The ghostly white shapes northeast and immediately southwest of Wrangel Island are sea ice. Over the course of the satellite record, Arctic sea ice has advanced and retreated past Wrangel Island many times. From 1979 to 2000, the sea ice edge at the end of summer generally fell somewhere in the vicinity of Wrangel Island, but this is not the first summer when the sea ice edge has retreated well north of the island.
Published Aug 29, 2008
The rift in the glacier is now completely open, and a large iceberg is moving out into Pine Island Bay.
Published Nov 14, 2013
Acquired July 20, 2011, this natural-color image shows a remnant of an ice island that broke off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier off the coast of Labrador.
Published Jul 22, 2011
Acquired August 4, 2011, this natural-color image shows the Petermann Ice Island-A off the northeastern tip of Newfoundland.
Published Aug 5, 2011
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