Moving pack ice in the currents of Lancaster Sound, prevents shipping except ice breakers


The fractured pack ice of the winter impassible north west passage at Lancaster Sound south of Devon Island Climate change scientists predict that this will become a major seaway when ice conditions begin to deteriorate due to global warming Aerial shot from helicopter in June 2007


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