Summary
In early March 2003, unusual ice formations appeared south of Cable’s Bay. A crack-and-surge cycle had broken and stacked thick clear ice into blue formations, including two roughly twelve-foot ice caves that drew visitors by mid-month.
Evidence limits
This is a contemporaneous newspaper observation and photograph caption, not a formal glaciological survey or permanent geographic feature record.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, April 2003, “A Phenomenon made of Ice.”Describes thick clear ice broken and stacked by a crack-and-surge cycle south of Cable’s Bay, producing a field of blue formations and two roughly twelve-foot ice caves visited by Islanders. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2003-04_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the ice-formation report and photographs.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2003-04_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Unusual blue ice formations and caves appear south of Cable’s Bay in March 2003”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-cable-bay-ice-caves-march-2003/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2003, “A Phenomenon made of Ice.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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