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The Agassiz Ice Cap is a vast body of land ice on the central eastern side of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. Once called Agassiz Glacier, it covers about 21,000 square kilometres and is one of the major ice masses in the Canadian High Arctic. Positioned between the North Ellesmere ice field and the Prince of Wales Icefield, it forms part of the broad glaciated landscape of eastern Ellesmere Island. The ice cap is also important to environmental research, because ice cores taken there have been used to study past climate and climate change by preserving a layered record of atmospheric conditions over time.
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