Scientists Find New Evidence On Arctic Temperatures

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27501, 8 November 1954, Page 11

Scientists Find New Evidence On Arctic Temperatures

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Two Canadian scientists, most tip of Canada said last ev, that tile Arctic was becoming w The two scientists, Dr. . Geoftery Hattersley-Smlth, a glaciologist, and Dr. Robert Christie, a geologist, were among a group who spent five months on the north shore of Ellesmere Island investigating the mysterious ice shelf. They brought back several hundred pounds of rock samples, more than 60ft of ice drilled out of the heart of the 180 ft deep ice shelf, and voluminous notes.

The ice core now is undergoing tests in United States defence laboratories in Chicago. The explorers also brought back a sfedge used by an expedition In 1909,

OTTAWA, November 6. jiiot back from the norlhernening they found new evidence armer. a can of tea, a can of alcohol, and notes and maps left by four other previous expeditions. Dr. Hattersley-Smith, who spent the summer of 1953 on the ice shelf, said there was evidence that the bleak north coast of Ellesmere Island was warmer than it used to be. He said traces of the ice shelf from which the famed Arctic ice island T-3 came, were found over a stretch of 60 miles of the coast line. The shelf now is 30 miles long. At one time it must have extended many miles furtherUn both directions along the coast, he raid.

“There is some indication that there has been a temperature change,” Dr. Hattersley-Smith said. No final conclusions would be reached, he said, until the notes and specimens brought back were studied thoroughly.

The shelf floats in deep water just off the Ellesmere coast. It rests lightly on the bottom near shore at low tide and fills a number of bays and fiords along the coast.