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Ward Hunt ice shelf broke apart
08:24 a.m. EDT Sep 28, 2003
Reports come in that the largest ice shelf in the Arctic has broken up. The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, on the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada's Nunavut territory which has been there for 3000 years has broken into two parts.
There were also large ice islands that calved off and some of them could pose a threat to shipping and to drilling platforms in the Beaufort Sea. According to researchers local warming of the climate is to blame. Gigantic ice shelves have also broken up in the Antarctic region.
Ward Hunt have been the starting point for expeditions heading out to the North Pole.
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