CEN project

Informations: Ayles Fiord

 

Measurement site

  Latitude : 82.75
  Longitude : -80
  Altitude (m) :
  Startup date : January 1, 1900

Site location

   
Fiord located on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island.

Site description

   
This fiord is deeper than 185 m and has a surface area of 118.9 km2. The Ayles Ice Shelf spanned the mouth of Ayles Fiord in the 1950s. After a break-up event in the early 1960s, multi-year landfast sea ice impound the fiord and it contained a shallow ice-dammed lake in 2007.