 The Canadian Arctic islands contain the largest area and volume of land ice on Earth outside of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets and is home to a number of substantial ice caps , including Penny and Barnes ice caps on Baffin Island , Bylot Ice Cap on Bylot Island , and Devon Ice Cap on Devon Island . Glaciers in the Canadian Arctic were near equilibrium between 1960 and 2000 , losing 23 Gt of ice per year between 1995 and 2000 . Since this time , Canadian Arctic glaciers have experienced a sharp increase in mass loss in response to warmer summer temperature , losing 92 Gt per year between 2007 and 2009 . 
