Arctic 'ghost island' that vanished may have actually been a dirty iceberg
The world’s 'northern-most island' isn’t the first to be erased from the map.
Source: livescience.com
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The world’s 'northern-most island' isn’t the first to be erased from the map.
By Kevin Hamilton (University of Hawaii) In 2021, an expedition off the icy northern Greenland coast spotted what appeared to be a previously uncharted island. It was small and gravelly,...
This was not the first such disappearing act in the high Arctic, or the first need to erase land from the map.
The new discovery echoes a mission in 1931, when a five-day zeppelin flight sent robots to the stratosphere and redrew the maps of the high Arctic.