Icebergs and pack ice are present year-round [in Nares Strait]; in an extreme example during 1962–64, a 20 km (12 mi) by 10 km (6.2 mi) ice island drifted southward from the Lincoln Sea through the Nares and Davis Straits to the Labrador Sea.
Born to H. T. and Vasundhara Ramanujam into a middle-class Tamil family in the city of Poona, Maharashtra, India.