Milne Ice Shelf
{{Short description|Ice shelf in the Arctic Ocean}}
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| location = Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
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The Milne Ice Shelf, a fragment of the former Ellesmere Ice Shelf, is located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is the second largest ice shelf in the Arctic Ocean. Situated on the north-west coast of Ellesmere Island, it is about {{convert|270|km|abbr=on}} west of Alert, Nunavut.
In 1986, the ice shelf had an area of about {{convert|290|km2|abbr=on}}, with a central thickness of {{convert|100|m|abbr=on}}.{{cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/pss/1551089 |title=Glaciers and the morphology and structure of Milne Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., Canada |first=Martin O. |last=Jeffries |journal=Arctic and Alpine Research |volume=18 |issue=4 |date=1986 |doi=10.2307/1551089 |access-date=26 October 2022}} It had been the last ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic to be fully intact until July 2020, when over 40 percent of the sheet collapsed within two days, a consequence of global warming. An uninhabited research camp was lost when the shelf collapsed. It included instruments for measuring water flow through the ice shelf.{{Cite news|date=6 August 2020|title=Canada's last fully intact Arctic ice shelf collapses|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-canada-idUSKCN2523JH |first=Moira |last=Warburton|access-date=7 August 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Funes |first1=Yessenia |title=These Satellite Images Show the Final Days of Canada's Last Ice Shelf |url=https://earther.gizmodo.com/these-satellite-images-show-the-final-days-of-canadas-l-1844685211 |accessdate=11 August 2020 |work=Earther |date=11 August 2020 |language=en-us}}