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Queen Elizabeth Islands and Baffin Bay, Northern Canada

MODIS acquired this true-color image of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in northern Canada (image left) and northwestern Greenland as the ice in Baffin Bay (lower right) and the Nares Strait, which separates Greenland from the Islands, was continuing to thaw.


Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published May 26, 2001
Data acquired May 26, 2001

Source:
Terra > MODIS
Topics:
Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Ice Growth/Melt
Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Icebergs
Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Pack Ice
Collection:
Visible Earth