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    Ellesmere Island (Inuktitut: ᐅᒥᖕᒪᒃ ᓄᓇ, romanized: Umingmak Nuna, lit. 'land of muskoxen'; French: île d'Ellesmere) is Canada's northernmost and third largest...
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    northernmost cluster of islands, including Ellesmere Island, is known as the Queen Elizabeth Islands and was formerly the Parry Islands. The archipelago consists...
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    Eureka is a small research base on Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is located on the...
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    the High Arctic tundra of Canada's Queen Elizabeth Islands, from Melville Island to Ellesmere Island. Unlike some populations that move between tundra...
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    being Ellesmere Island. Other major islands include Amund Ringnes Island, Axel Heiberg Island, Bathurst Island, Borden Island, Cornwall Island, Cornwallis...
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    Channel between Greenland and Ellesmere Island. Hans Island is approximately 1.3 km2 in size and is barren. Hans Island is not inhabited, although, through...
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    buildings remain today. Devon Island is located between Ellesmere Island in the north, Cornwallis Island in the west, and Baffin Island in the south, separated...
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    of 168.17 m (551.7 ft). Its location in the strait that separates Ellesmere Island of Canada from northern Greenland was for years a border dispute, the...
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  • Tasmania, Australia Ellesmere Island, an Arctic island of Canada and named for Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere Ellesmere Road, an arterial road...
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  • The Ellesmere Island Volcanics are a Late Cretaceous volcanic group of volcanoes and lava flows in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut...
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    Kaffeklubben Island or Coffee Club Island (Danish: Kaffeklubben Ø; Greenlandic: Inuit Qeqertaat) is an uninhabited island lying off the northern shore...
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    also includes Ellesmere Island to the far north, as well as the eastern and southern portions of Victoria Island in the west, and all islands in Hudson,...
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    slightly closer. The nearest permanently inhabited place is Alert on Ellesmere Island, Canada, which is located 817 km (508 mi) from the Pole. While the...
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    Arctic Cordillera (category Mountain ranges of Baffin Island)
    along the northeastern flank of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from Ellesmere Island to the northeasternmost part of the Labrador Peninsula in northern...
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    situated in the Arctic Ocean, west of Ellesmere Island from 77° to 81° North and 85° to 106° West. The islands are named after Norwegian explorer Otto...
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  • Columbia Tasiujaq between Baffin Island and Bylot Island in Nunavut Eureka Sound between Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island in Nunavut Fitz Hugh Sound...
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    points of the geography of Canada. Northernmost point — Cape Columbia, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut 83°6′41″N 69°57′30″W / 83.11139°N 69.95833°W / 83.11139;...
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  • Trough (a.k.a. Suwannee Strait) – (prehistoric) Hall Basin – between Ellesmere Island and Greenland Harlem River – between Manhattan and The Bronx Haro Straits...
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  • Thumbnail for List of islands by area
    This list of islands by area includes all islands in the world larger than 2,500 km2 (970 sq mi) and most of the islands over 1,000 km2 (390 sq mi), sorted...
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    entire shelf calved from the northern edge of Ellesmere Island. Since 1900, about 90% of Ellesmere Island's ice shelves have calved and floated away. This...
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    Grise Fiord (category Ellesmere Island)
    the southern tip of Ellesmere Island, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is one of three populated places on the island; despite its low population...
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    Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Arctic Ocean, located off the north coast of Ellesmere Island near the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf. The island is...
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    land in Canada—Cape Columbia, Ellesmere Island—is 4,640 kilometres (2,883 miles). The southernmost point of Middle Island is at a latitude of North 41°40′53″...
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    settlement, Canadian Forces Station Alert, on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island—latitude 82.5°N—which lies 817 kilometres (508 mi) from the North Pole...
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    birds and mammals. The first Tiktaalik fossils were found in 2004 on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. The discovery, made by Edward B. Daeschler of the...
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    its Arctic Archipelago, Baffin Island and significant bands through Somerset, Southampton, Devon and Ellesmere islands. In total, the exposed area of...
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  • Skraeling Island is a Canadian island, located within the territory of Nunavut, which lies off of the east coast of Ellesmere Island at the mouth of Alexandra...
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  • Island Cornwall Island Devon Island Eglinton Island Ellesmere Island Emerald Isle Graham Island Griffith Island Helena Island Hoved Island Île Vanier King...
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  • Thumbnail for Ellesmere, Shropshire
    Ellesmere (/ˈɛlzmɪər/ ELZ-meer) is a town in the civil parish of Ellesmere Urban, in Shropshire, England; it is located near to the Welsh border, the towns...
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    This is a list of glaciers in Canada. Donjek Glacier Hubbard Glacier Logan Glacier Juneau Icefield Llewellyn Glacier Hang Ten Icefield Stikine Icecap Great...
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