Ellesmere Island
Proper noun
Meaning
Ellesmere Island
The northernmost island of Canada, in Nunavut.
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A huge section of the Milne Ice Shelf, the last of Canada’s intact ice shelves located on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, has collapsed into the Arctic Ocean, creating an “ice island” about 30 square miles in size, larger than that of the area of Manhattan.
And reading books set in Canada in the last year has been a pleasure: I've discovered Gail Bowen, Anthony Bidulka (hilarious), R.J. Harlick, M.J. McGrath (book set in Ellesmere Island), William Demerest -- and of course, Vicki Delaney.
A. I did go tracking with Inuit up on Ellesmere Island.
On 4 May 1990 Børge Ousland and Erling Kagge became the first explorers ever to reach the North Pole unsupported, after a 58-day ski trek from Ellesmere Island in Canada, a distance of 800 km.
The northernmost settlement in Canada—and in the world—is Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert (just north of Alert, Nunavut ) on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island at 82°30′N 62°19′W, just convert from the North Pole.
One former Inuit camp on an islet off Ellesmere Island contained the rivets of a Norse boat – quite possibly a hunting trip that never returned.