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Queen Elizabeth Islands and Baffin Bay, Northern Canada

This true-color MODIS image from northern Canada shows the northernmost of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Ellesmere Island, separated from the northwestern tip of Greenland by the slowly thawing Nares Strait.


Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team

Published June 15, 2001
Data acquired June 15, 2001

Source:
Terra > MODIS
Topic:
Oceans > Sea Ice > Ice Growth/Melt
Collection:
Visible Earth