The Serson Ice Shelf is a major
ice shelf
An ice shelf is a large floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are only found in Antarctica, Greenland, Northern Canada, and the Russian Arctic. The ...
on the northern coast of
Ellesmere Island in
Qikiqtaaluk Region,
Nunavut,
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
. It measured approximately until 60 percent of it broke away in two large sections during summer 2008.
References
Ellesmere Island
Ice shelves of Qikiqtaaluk Region
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