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The Ellesmere Ice Shelf was documented by the British Arctic Expedition of 1875 – 76, in which Lieutenant Pelham Aldrich's party went from Cape Sheridan () west to Cape Alert (), including the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf.
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Before the Little Ice Age, Norwegian Vikings sailed as far north and west as Ellesmere Island, Skraeling Island and Ruin Island for hunting expeditions and trading with the Inuit groups who already inhabited the region.
Large portions of Ellesmere Island are covered with glaciers and ice, with Manson Icefield and Sydkap in the south ; Prince of Wales Icefield and Agassiz Ice Cap along the central-east side of the island, along with substantial ice cover in Northern Ellesmere Island.
The Ellesmere Ice Shelf was reduced by 90 percent in the twentieth century due to climate change, leaving the separate Alfred Ernest, Ayles, Milne, Ward Hunt, and Markham Ice Shelves.
The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, the largest remaining section of thick (> 10 m, > 30 ft ) landfast sea ice along the northern coastline of Ellesmere Island, lost of ice in a massive calving in 1961 – 1962.
The breakup of the Ellesmere Ice Shelves has continued in the 21st century: the Ward Ice Shelf experienced a major breakup during summer 2002 ; the Ayles Ice Shelf calved entirely on August 13, 2005 ; the largest breakoff of the ice shelf in 25 years, it may pose a threat to the oil industry in the Beaufort Sea.
The Ellesmere ice shelf reduced by 90 percent in the twentieth century, leaving the separate Alfred Ernest, Ayles, Milne, Ward Hunt, and Markham Ice Shelves.
The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, the largest remaining section of thick (> 10 m ) landfast sea ice along the northern coastline of Ellesmere Island, lost 600 square km of ice in a massive calving in 1961-1962.
* Markham Ice Shelf, formerly attached to Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
The President sends her to the Arctic as part of a team of experts to confirm and authenticate findings made by NASA deep within the Milne Ice Shelf on Ellesmere Island.
* Agassiz Ice Cap, an ice cap on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
The Milne Ice Shelf, a fragment of the former Ellesmere Ice Shelf, is located in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.
Ellesmere and was
The Ellesmere Canal was completed in 1805 and alongside his canal responsibilities, Telford's reputation as a civil engineer meant he was constantly consulted on numerous other projects.
Peary's 1898 – 1902 expedition was darkened by his claim to an 1899 visual discovery of " Jesup Land " west of Ellesmere, leading to his allegation that this was his sighting of Axel Heiberg land prior to its discovery by Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup's expedition, a Peary claim now universally rejected.
In 1864, the Australian Black Swan was introduced to New Zealand as an ornamental waterfowl, and populations are now common on larger coastal or inland lakes, especially Rotorua Lakes, Lake Wairarapa and Lake Ellesmere, and the Chatham Islands.
Ellesmere Island was named in 1852 by Edward Inglefield's expedition after Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere.
The northwest coast of Ellesmere Island was covered by a massive, long ice shelf until the 20th century.
In 2006, the population of Ellesmere Island was recorded as 146.
The Ellesmere Canal was intended to connect the coal mines and ironworks at Ruabon and Wrexham to the canal network and thence to the sea via the River Mersey and the River Severn.
As part of the rebuilding, it was expected that Ellesmere station will be closed due to low demand.
In 1805, the Wirral section of the Ellesmere Canal was opened, which ran from Netherpool ( now known as Ellesmere Port ) to meet the Chester Canal at Chester canal basin.
The original plan to complete the Ellesmere Canal was to connect Chester directly to the Wrexham coalfields by building a broad-gauge waterway with a branch to the River Dee at Holt.
However, although Wrexham itself was bypassed, the plan to join the rivers Severn, Mersey and Dee was completed, first by cutting the Wirral Arm from Chester to Ellesmere Port ( Whitby wharf ) then by extending the Llangollen Arm via ellesmere, Whitchurch and Bettisfield Moss through to the Chester Canal at Hurleston.
The Lord Chancellor of the time, Lord Ellesmere, was not dissuaded, and maintained that he had the jurisdiction to oversee decisions of the common-law courts and matters of freehold.
Coke and the other judges overruled this judgment while Ellesmere was ill, taking the case as an opportunity to completely overthrow the Lord Chancellor's jurisdiction.
Horwitz writes that this was not just limited to Bacon, and that " after the dramatic confrontations between Lord Chief Justice Coke and Lord Chancellor Ellesmere, chancellors took care to circumscribe the Court's corrective jurisdiction and to focus more narrowly on territories they had staked out as peculiarly their own ".
A manufacturing plant at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, was opened in 1962, initially making components to supply to the production lines in Luton, before passenger car production began there in 1964.
Development of the network was left to other engineers, such as Thomas Telford, whose Ellesmere Canal helped link the Severn and the Mersey.
The road bypasses Chester, before running through the suburbs of Ellesmere Port ( where the road was downgraded for safety reasons in the early 1990s ).
Although most Vivas were produced at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant in northern England, the company's production lines were by the standards of the time flexible, and the millionth car was a product of the Luton factory.
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The first race is won by Ellesmere, guided home by Sullivan.
Peary's new ship Roosevelt battled its way through the ice between Greenland and Ellesmere Island to an American hemisphere farthest north by ship.
After returning to the Roosevelt in May, Peary in June began weeks of further agonizing travel by heading west along the shore of Ellesmere, discovering Cape Colgate, from the summit of which he claimed in his 1907 publications he had seen a previously undiscovered far-north " Crocker Land " to the northwest on June 24 of 1906.
* Detailed map, northern Ellesmere Island, including named capes, points, bays, and offshore islands by Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith
There are also infrequent services by Northern Rail between Ellesmere Port and Liverpool Lime Street via Warrington Bank Quay.
Vauxhall has major manufacturing facilities in Luton ( commercial vehicles, owned by sister company IBC Vehicles ) and Ellesmere Port, UK ( passenger cars ).
On 17 May 2006, Vauxhall announced the loss of 900 jobs from Ellesmere Port's 3, 000 staff, part of significant worldwide staff reductions by GM.
The Viva remained on sale until the end of 1979, when the Opel Kadett D-based Vauxhall Astra was launched, while the Chevette remained on sale until 1984, itself being replaced by the slightly smaller Vauxhall Nova that was launched in 1983, with Chevette production being reduced in November 1981, when Astra production was moved to the Ellesmere Port factory.
There are no major highways on Ellesmere Island, so Grise Fiord is connected to the rest of the island and the world by Grise Fiord Airport.
The Birkenhead Urban Area, as defined by the Office for National Statistics, includes Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bebington, Ellesmere Port, and the contiguous built-up areas which link those towns along the eastern side of the Wirral.
In the early years of James's reign, the day-to-day running of the government was tightly managed by the shrewd Robert Cecil, later Earl of Salisbury, ably assisted by the experienced Thomas Egerton, whom James made Baron Ellesmere and Lord Chancellor, and by Thomas Sackville, soon Earl of Dorset, who continued as Lord Treasurer.
Ellesmere and British
The British Association came to his aid, and the Earl of Ellesmere — then Lord Francis Egerton — gave him yet more efficient help.
Barbeau Peak, the highest mountain in Nunavut () is located in the British Empire Range on Ellesmere Island.
In 1880, the British assigned all North American Arctic islands to Canada, right up to Ellesmere Island.
Through its charitable arm The Waterways Trust, British Waterways maintained a museum of its history within the National Waterways Museum's three sites at Gloucester Docks, Stoke Bruerne and Ellesmere Port.
* Ellesmere Port railway station, a British train station with station code ELP
In the 1980s, British Waterways took the decision to rename the surviving central sections of the Ellesmere Canal as the Llangollen Canal.
The British Empire Range is a mountain range on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada.
Mount Whisler is a mountain of the British Empire Range on Canada's Ellesmere Island.
It is the second highest peak of the British Empire Range, of Ellesmere Island, and of the Arctic Cordillera.
Highpointer Peak is a peak of the British Empire Range on Ellesmere Island.
Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere KG, PC ( 1 January 1800 – 18 February 1857 ), known as Lord Francis Leveson-Gower until 1833, was a British politician, writer, traveller and patron of the arts.
John Sutherland Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland ( 10 May 1915 – 21 September 2000 ), styled Viscount Brackley until 1944 and known as The Earl of Ellesmere between 1944 and 1963, was a British peer.
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