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The last new lands?

Geographers and cartographers are getting some new work. The unexpectedly fast melting of the Greenland ice sheets is revealing new islands- at an astonishing rate. These islands were previously thought to be attached to the mainland, but with the rapid glacial melt, they are being found and named.
"“The general thinking until very recently was that ice sheets don’t react very quickly to climate,” said Martin Truffer, a glaciologist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. “But that thinking is changing right now, because we’re seeing things that people have thought are impossible.”
...Ominous implications are not lost on Mr. Schmitt, who says he hopes that the island he discovered in Greenland in September will become an international symbol of the effects of climate change. Mr. Schmitt, who speaks Inuit, has provisionally named it Uunartoq Qeqertoq: the warming island."
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