Posts tagged with ‘canadian ice service’ (1)
Posted by Samia Madwar
on Friday, August 03, 2012
The ice is late this year.
Usually, Iqaluit mayor Madeleine Redfern explains, ships start coming into
Iqaluit at the end of the first week of July, when the ice has cleared just enough for them to navigate without peril. This year, they were only able to make it in at around the third week of July. Geoff Green showed us a series of ice charts courtesy of the Canadian Ice Service tracking ice cover along the coast of Baffin Island in Nunavut. Though wind and currents are sweeping away some ...
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