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Informations: M'Clintock Inlet

 

Measurement site

  Latitude : 82.93733
  Longitude : -77.58437
  Altitude (m) :
  Startup date : January 1, 1900

Site location

   
Inlet located on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island.

Site description

   
Very deep inlet with a maximal depth of at least 715 m. M'Clintock Inlet contained a freshwater layer of about 4 m thick in 2008. RADARSAT-1 SAR data indicated that this shallow ice-dammed lake would be very large (292 km2; Veillette et al. 2008).