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Milne Fiord epishelf lake

The freshwater layer that sat behind the Milne Ice Shelf in Milne Fiord, northern Ellesmere Island, and the last known epishelf lake in Canada. It held freshwater organisms above marine water connected to the Arctic Ocean.

Known aliases

Milne Fiord lake

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

science1 publisher

Moorings left through a canceled field season caught Canada's last epishelf lake draining

Instruments nobody could reach in 2020 recorded the Milne Fiord lake losing its freshwater layer within months of the ice shelf breakup, and the annual visits since have found nothing of it coming back.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption22
Hype gap+8
Incentives58
Confidence66