A continental outlet glacier terminating in outer Frobisher Bay, southern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada, deposited the Hall moraine immediately prior to 10,760 yr B.P. (dated by C14). This moraine and associated C14 dates provide the first documentation of a pre-Holocene late Foxe (late Wisconsin) ice advance from the eastern Canadian Arctic. A second moraine system deposited near the head of the bay is of Cockburn age (8,000 to 9,000 yr), and it correlates with the maximum late Foxe advance farther north on Baffin Island. A compilation of C14 dates related to the maximum late Foxe advance and marine paleoclimatology along 2,500 km of eastern Arctic coastline suggests a parallel but time-transgressive latitudinal relationship. There is considerable evidence for dominantly local ice accumulation centers and a prominent glacial advance between 11,000 and 10,000 yr B.P. from widely scattered sites surrounding the North Atlantic Ocean.

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