Ellesmere Island
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Ellesmere Island is part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. Cape Columbia is the most northerly point of land in Canada.
The area of Ellesmere Island is 196,235 square kilometres (75,767 sq mi), the world's tenth biggest island and Canada's third biggest island. The Arctic Cordillera mountain system covers much of Ellesmere Island: it is the most mountainous island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The Arctic Willow is the only woody species to grow on Ellesmere Island.[1]
In 2001, 168 people lived on Ellesmere Island. There are three settlements on Ellesmere Island including Alert, Eureka, and Grise Fiord.
Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert on Ellesmere Island is the northernmost settlement in the world.
Ellesmere Island Media
Topography of Ellesmere Island
Glaciers of southeastern Ellesmere Island, June 1975
Ward Hunt Island (foreground), Ward Hunt Ice Shelf and northern Ellesmere Island (left), July 1988
The overhanging ice front of Webber Glacier with waterfalls. Debris rich layers of the ground moraine are sheared and folded into the ice of the advancing polar glacier. The glacier front is 6 km (3.7 mi) broad and up to 40 m (130 ft) high. Borup Fiord, Grant Land, Ellesmere Island, July 1978
Canada's northern neighbours shown on a circumpolar projection of the Arctic
Monument of the first Inuit settlers of 1953 and 1955
References
- ↑ Ed Kemmick (2007-10-25). Researcher: study of poles needed. Billingsgazette.net. http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/10/25/news/local/38-poles.txt. Retrieved 2007-10-25.[dead link]
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