Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- An island of northern Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Ocean separated from Greenland by a narrow passage. It was first sighted by the English explorer William Baffin in 1616.
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- proper n. The northernmost island of Canada, in Nunavut
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Examples
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We had travelled up into Arctic Canada to Alert, the base at the tip of Ellesmere Island, which is the most northerly inhabited place on Earth, and then flown 500 miles to locate Fiennes and Burton in a Twin Otter, a light aircraft fitted with skis.
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First Air charter flight, number 6560, was traveling from Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories to Resolute Bay, and was scheduled to continue on to Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island.
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The ancient forest found on Ellesmere Island, which lies north of the Arctic Circle in Canada, contained dried out birch, larch, spruce and pine trees.
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Worse, only one station — at Eureka on Ellesmere Island — is now used by NOAA as a temperature gauge for all Canadian territory above the Arctic Circle.
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Douglas et al. [73], using diatom indicators in shallow ponds of the high Arctic (Ellesmere Island), found relatively stable diatom populations over the past 8,000 years, but striking successional changes over the past 200 years.
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Changes in diatom assemblages in Lake C2 (Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada): response to basin isolation from the sea and to other environmental changes.
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For example, chrysophyte microfossils were absent or rare in Sawtooth Lake (Ellesmere Island, 79° N) over the past 2,500 years but suddenly became abundant 80 years ago.
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The seven arctic national parks range in size from Vuntut in Yukon Territory at 4345 km2 to Quttinipaaq (formerly Ellesmere Island) at 37775 km2 in Nunavut.
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At the northern limit of the terrestrial Arctic, such as on Ellesmere Island, there are lakes that have only recently begun to have open water during the summer; other lakes now have open water for more summers every decade than in the past.
Broad-scale effects of climate change on freshwater systems in the Arctic
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Diversity and abundance of soil algae in the polar desert, Sverdrup Pass, central Ellesmere Island.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic
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