Photo: Frobisher Bay goes from smooth to chunky

With temperatures in Iqaluit dipping recently, Frobisher Bay is starting to freeze over, as seen in the above picture, taken beside the causeway on Nov. 19. The tides in Frobisher Bay — ranging from one to 11 metres high this time of year — are among the highest in the world, making for beautiful but jagged overlapping slabs of ice on the bay. According to data from the Canadian Ice Service, which shows how much of Baffin Bay is frozen at this time of year from 1981 to 2014, freeze-up is happening at a later and later date. The median percentage of freeze-up over those 33 years is calculated at about 82 per cent for this time of year. This year, only 70 per cent of Baffin Bay is currently frozen. (PHOTO BY THOMAS ROHNER)