It covers close to 6,000 km2 (2,300 sq mi) in the area of the Baffin Mountains. It has been thinning due to regional warming.[1] Between 2004 and 2006, the ice cap was thinning at a rate of 1 m (3 ft 3 in) per year.
The ice cap contains Canada's oldest ice, some of it being over 20,000 years old.[2] It is a remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, which covered much of Canada during the last glacial period of the Earth's current ice age.[3] Generator Lake is located at the southeastern end of the ice cap.[4]
The Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island.
A portion of the Barnes Ice Cap near its south-eastern end.
^"Barnes Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Canada". NASA Earth Observatory. 2010-10-04. Retrieved 2024-11-05. A remnant of the Laurentide Ice Sheet that sprawled over North America during the Pleistocene Age, the Barnes Ice Cap is a bowling-pin-shaped glacier on Canada's Baffin Island.
