Ellesmere Island
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Ellesmere Island is Canada's northernmost and third largest island, and the tenth largest in the world. It comprises an area of 197,790.33 km2, slightly smaller than Great Britain, and the total lengt
Tundra in Quttinirpaaq National Park
HMS Alert off Cape Prescott in 1875
Fort Conger in Grinnel Land, May 1883
Air Force glacier in Quttinirpaaq National Park
Nunavut
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Nunavut is the largest and northernmost territory of Canada. It was separated from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, which prov
Ellesmere Island
…in three settlements: Alert, Eureka, and Grise Fiord. Ellesmere Island is administered as part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Ellesmere Island has three major geological regions. The Grant Land Highlands is a large belt of fold mountains which dominate the northern face of…
Depiction of an Inuit settlement on Boothia Peninsula in the 1830s, during John Ross' second expedition to find the Northwest Passage
A ceremony commemorating the establishment of Nunavut, April 1999
An aerial photo of Nunavut near the Roes Welcome Sound on April 22, 2017
CHARS is one of several Arctic research stations in Nunavut.