Glaciers melting rapidly on Baffin Island are uncovering Arctic landscapes not seen in over 40,000 years—and possibly much longer, Nunatsiaq News reports.

This is according to a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications by a group of American scientists who spent three summers surveying ice caps on eastern Baffin Island around the Cumberland Peninsula.

- It’s very apparent that the glaciers are retreating rapidly, said lead researcher and study co-author Simon Pendleton of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder.