Penny Ice Cap
The Penny Ice Cap, formerly Penny Icecap, is a 6,000 km2 ice cap in Auyuittuq National Park of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It forms a 2,000 m high barrier on the Cumberland Peninsula, an area of deep fjords and glaciated valleys.
NASA, Public domain.- Glacier with an elevation of around 1,590 metres (5,230 feet)
- Description: ice cap in Nunavut, Canada
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Latitude
67.28409° or 67° 17′ 3″ north
Longitude
-66.21381° or 66° 12′ 50″ west
Open location code
97VM7QMP+JF
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Penny Ice Cap” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Penny Ice Cap”
- Chinese: “彭尼冰蓋”
- Dutch: “Penny Ice Cap”
- Finnish: “Penny Ice Cap”
- Finnish: “Pennyjäätikkö”
- French: “Calotte glaciaire Penny”
- German: “Penny Ice Cap”
- German: “Penny-Eiskappe”
- Italian: “Cappa di ghiaccio Penny”
- Polish: “Penny Ice Cap”
- Spanish: “Campo de Hielo Penny”
- Spanish: “Capa de Hielo Penny”
- Spanish: “Penny Ice Cap”
- Swedish: “Penny Ice Cap”
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