Gudmandsen — new Petermann ice island expected to enter Hall Basin within the next week; moderate flow of ice through Nares Strait including the Petermann ice island and smaller icebergs from Humboldt glacier will impact tourist vessels trying to reach Hans Island (searcharcticscience.org)
So far the disentegration of smaller ice shelves on the Antartic Peninsula has increased the number of smaller icebergs, but not the large tabular icebergs that can travel quite far north. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Scientists had previously recognized this effect but had tracked only small icebergs shorter than 1 kilometer, said Grant Bigg, a professor in Earth systems science at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. (eos.org)