Where is the Petermann Baby?

As we all know the ice tongue that broke off of Petermann Glacier some time ago, has broken up in two pieces. The big mothership is still stuck against Joe Island, but where did the baby ice island run off to? Mind you, this baby is still about 80 km2 and several tens of meters high.

I didn't keep an eye on it and thus couldn't find it any more. Luckily, Phil. was so kind as to post a link to an image in the comment section of the last SIE update. I figured I'd share:

And then I got a crazy idea. What if the baby ice island drifts into Baffin Bay before the circumnavigating Norwegians and Russians do? They could then sail up to it and make pictures of it! I hereby declare the right to post these pictures first.

UPDATE: Lord Soth informed us that "the Canadian Ice Service has successfully dropped a transponder on the smaller Peterman B ice island, which has just entered Baffin Bay." You can follow Petermann-B at Sailwx.

Comments

[Christoffer Ladstein]

Neven, hereby I've posted a link about this new "project" of yours on Northern Passage's blog!

Personally I can't at present understand how they'll meet, have you really been projecting speed? Northern Passage will likely be in the Baffin Sea 23-25. Sep, and if that Ice Island are able to speed down to those latitudes in so few days, I'll get deeply disturbed!

[Oslo]

A bit OT but the Antarctic ice extent seems a bit odd:

http://www.iup.physik.uni-bremen.de:8084/amsr/ice_ext_s.png

Very early start of melt season it seems?

[Bfraser]

And you can see the same thing in the Cryosphere Today area graph:

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.recent.antarctic.png

I can't recall if they are driven by the same sensors or not.

[Timothy Chase]

IJIS Arctic SIE Update

2010-09-17: 4842031
2010-09-18: 4798750

We dropped 43281 in one day

2010-09-18: 4798750
2008-09-09: 4707813

Would need to drop 90937 to tie 2008. Equivalent to a little more than 2 days (2.1) at the same rate.