The ice shelf broke off from the coast in early August 2008, becoming adrift in the Arctic Ocean.
[3] On September 3, 2008, CNN quoted Derek Mueller, of Trent University in Ontario, Canada as saying to the Associated Press: The Markham Ice Shelf was a big surprise because it suddenly disappeared.
We went under cloud for a bit during our research and when the weather cleared up, all of a sudden there was no more ice shelf.
[4] According to images from NASA, the ice shelf completely disintegrated over a period of 6 days in August 2008.
[6][7][8] The ice shelf was named for Albert Hastings Markham, a British Arctic explorer.