Milne ice shelf

Why in news?

• Canada’s 4,000-year-old Milne Ice Shelf which had been the country’s last intact ice shelf has broken apart, as a consequence of Global warming.

About Milne ice shelf:

• The Milne Ice Shelf, is located in, Nunavut, Canada.
•  It is the second largest ice shelf in the Arctic Ocean.
• 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.
• Canada used to have a large continuous ice shelf across the northern coast, but it has been breaking apart over the last decades because of man-made global warming.
• By 2005 it was down to six remaining ice shelves and the Milne was really the last complete ice shelf.

About ice shelves:

• 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, Canada, and the Russian Arctic.
• The boundary between the floating ice shelf and the anchor ice (resting on bedrock) that feeds it is called the grounding line.
• The thickness of ice shelves can range from about 100 m (330 ft) to 1,000 m (3,300 ft).

PRELIMS QUESTION

Milne ice shelf was an ice shelf located in:
(a)Russia
(b)Canada
(c)USA
(d)Denmark

Answer to prelims question