Barnes Ice Cap
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The Barnes Ice Cap is an ice cap located in central Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It covers close to 6,000 km2 and has been thinning due to global warming.[1] Between 1970 and 1984, the ice cap thinned 1.7 m (6 ft).
The ice cap is Canada's oldest ice, being approximately 20,000 years old.[1] It is a remnant of the Laurentide ice sheet, which covered much of Canada during the last ice age.
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