Penny Ice Cap

The Penny Ice Cap is a 6,000-square-kilometer ice cap in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, forming a 2,000-meter-high barrier on the Cumberland Peninsula amid deep fjords and glaciated valleys. It is a remnant of the Laurentide ice sheet, and Canadian researchers have studied its freezing and thawing patterns over centuries through ice core samples; the cap has been thinning and its valley glaciers retreating in recent decades with rising Arctic air temperatures. It is named for Captain William Penny, a whaling captain who pioneered overwintering with the Inuit at Cumberland Sound and later searched for the lost Franklin expedition. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/