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	Axel Heiberg Island
		Axel Heiberg Island is a medium-sized island in the Far North, just west of Ellesmere Island.
		The northern half of the island changes from lowlands in the south to cone-shaped hills that jut out of the ground in the north.
		Axel Heiberg Island was first discovered and explored in 1900 by Otto Sverdrup and I. Foshiem.
	www.arctic.uoguelph.ca /cpe/environments/maps/detailed/islands/axel_heiberg.htm (244 words)

	Axel Heiberg Island - Encyclopedia.com
		Axel Heiberg Island, 13,583 sq mi (35,180 sq km), in the Arctic Ocean, N Nunavut Territory, Canada, W of Ellesmere Island.
		The island's plateau surface (3,000-6,000 ft/915-1,830 m high) is deeply indented by fjords.
		mummified forest of Axel Heiberg Island, and an ice-crunching...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-AxelHeib.html (723 words)

	Axel Heiberg Island - MSN Encarta
		Axel Heiberg Island, third largest of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, in the Baffin Region, northern Nunavut Territory, Canada, in the Arctic Ocean.
		Much of the island consists of a plateau, with fjords marking the coastline.
		The island was named after the Norwegian consul Axel Heiberg, who sponsored the first expedition there in 1899.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570986/Axel_Heiberg_Island.html (117 words)

	Axel Heiberg Island - Definition, explanation
		Axel Heiberg Island is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Nunavut Territory,Canada.
		Axel Heiberg Island is one of the 30 or so largest in the world, with an area of 16,671 square miles (43,178 km²) according to Statistics Canada [1].
		The island is known for its fossil forests, dating from the Eocene period.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/ax/axel_heiberg_island.php (350 words)

	Axel Heiberg Island
		It was on this side of the island that large tree stumps were discovered in 1985.
		Animal evidence of semitropical Axel Heiberg was found in the late 1990s when alligator and turtle fossils were found at Mokka Fiord and fossilized tooth fragments of an extinct huge rhinoceroslike herbivore, Brontotheriidae, were found in the fossil forest site.
		The island was discovered in 1899 by a Norwegian expedition led by Otto SVERDRUP, who named it after the Norwegian consul.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000428 (302 words)

	Fossil Forests of Axel Heiberg Island
		Palmstrom claimed that fossil forests found on Axel Heiberg Island the Canadian Arctic are evidence of Earth Crustal or Pole Shift.
		The stumps on Axel Heiberg Island certainly haven't been sitting on the surface for the last 45 million years and nobody claims that they have been.
		The trees were killed and their stumps buried and preserved when the development of a crevasse splay or change in the river course flooded the backswamp with sediment over a very short period of time.
	www.intersurf.com /~chalcedony/AxelHeiberg2.html (2421 words)

	Axel Heiberg Island (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Axel Heiberg is the seventh-largest island in Canada.
		One of the Sverdrup Islands, it is located in the far north of the Arctic Archipelago.
		About one-third of the island is covered by icefields and glaciers.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=J1ARTJ0000428 (108 words)

	Science News for Kids: Feature: Fossil Forests
		The island lies 1,000 miles north of Alaska and 700 miles from the North Pole.
		Axel Heiberg Island (shown in red) is one of the northernmost islands in Canada's Arctic.
		Jahren is using chemical analyses to measure the proportions of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and other elements in the Axel Heiberg fossils.
	www.sciencenewsforkids.org /articles/20070110/Feature1.asp (918 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Axel Heiberg Island is the 31st largest island in the world and Canada's 7th largest island.
		Axel Heiberg Island has been inhabited in the past by Inuit people, but was uninhabited by the time it was named by Otto Sverdrup, who explored it around 1900.
		Axel Heiberg Island is the largest of the Sverdrup Islands, part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands archipelago in Nunavut Territory, Canada.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Axel_Heiberg_Island (1229 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Axel Heiberg Island
		Axel Heiberg Island is one of the 30 or so largest in the world, with an area of 16,671 square miles (43,178 km²) according to Statistics Canada [1].
		The island is known for its fossil forests, dating from the Eocene period.
		Their observations of Bunde Glacier, in northwest Axel Heiberg Island, are the earliest glaciological observations on the ground to have found their way into a scientific publication.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Axel_Heiberg_Island (451 words)

	Bangor Publishing Company (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jagels is one of the scientists drawn to Axel Heiberg and spent three summers there, in 1997, 1999 and 2000, studying the remnants of ancient Dawn Redwood forests.
		Axel Heiberg was uninhabited when Otto Sverdrup of Norway explored it from 1898 to 1902.
		The swamp forests of 135-foot tall Metasequoia in the warm, low-light habitat of Eocene-era Axel Heiberg are gone.
	www.bangornews.com /news/t/default.aspx?a=99980&template=print-article.htm (888 words)

	Canadian Arctic Islands -- scenery and geology
		This document is a sampling of scenery, wildlife, flora, and geology I have photographed mainly on Ellesmere, Axel Heiberg, and Amund Ringnes islands in the Canadian Arctic during geological fieldwork in 1987, 1990, and 1993.
		A glacier at the end of the fiord has calved icebergs, many of which are stranded in the shallow fiord.
		Unless otherwise noted, images are copyright (c) 1996 Andrew MacRae, email: macrae@geo.ucalgary.ca, and are freely distributable for non-commercial use provided the original source and copyright is indicated.
	www.geo.ucalgary.ca /~macrae/arctic/arctic.html (541 words)

	Canada
		Cape Columbia, a promontory of Ellesmere Island at latitude 83Â°06' north, is the northernmost point of Canada; the country's southernmost point is Middle Island in Lake Erie, at latitude 41Â°41' north.
		This region of ancient granite rock, sparsely covered with soil and deeply eroded by glacial action, comprises all of Labrador (the easternmost part of the mainland, which is part of the province of Newfoundland), most of QuÃ©bec, northern Ontario, Manitoba, and most of the Northwest Territories, with Hudson Bay in the center.
		The former embraces Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, and the GaspÃ© Peninsula of QuÃ©bec.
	www.cmxyonda.info /country/ca.html (1220 words)

	Axel Heiberg Island Exploration (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first white person to see and map Axel Heiberg was Otto Sverdrup during his expedition of 1898 to 1902.
		The island is dominated by the Mueller Ice Cap, originally called the Akaioa Ice Cap, but re-named the Mueller Ice Cap in 1980 to commemorate Dr. Fritz Mueller, a prominent glaciologist who started the research camp.
		Peary caribou population numbers are unknown on Axel Heiberg, but recent studies on Bathurst Island and other areas have shown such dramatic population decreases that Peary caribou are now considered endangered.
	www.canadianarcticholidays.ca /file38.htm (2628 words)

	Headlines@Hopkins: Johns Hopkins University News Releases
		The fossils tell of a different era, though, an odd time about 45 million years ago when Axel Heiberg, still as close to the North Pole as it is now, was covered in a forest of redwood-like trees known as metasequoias.
		Hope Jahren on Axel Heiberg, where she holds a fossil metasequoia, one of the hundreds her group has excavated there.
		In her group's first major Axel Heiberg results, published in the January issue of GSA (Geological Society of America) Today, they measured the presence of isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen in the fossilized metasequoias.
	www.jhu.edu /news_info/news/home02/mar02/heilberg.html (709 words)

	The Frederick A. Cook Society
		The 1999 camp discovery suggests that Kruger and his party made it back to Axel Heiberg (thus discounting earlier theories that they had perished on the Polar ice cap) and that they had to abandon their camp in a quick snowstorm and may have perished in the proximity.
		Of importance to polar geographers in any re-thinking of the problem are the actual conditions of the sea ice, the topography of the charted islands in the Canadian Arctic in the latitude and longitude under question, and the possible relationship of known drift in the polar basin in the years when the visitations took place.
		Concluding his study of the Meighan Island problem, Stefansson declared that it was ‘impossible to believe’ that he had discovered it; found it ‘difficult to believe’ that Cook did not discover it yet felt it was ‘seemingly impossible to explain’ why Cook would refuse to acknowledge the discovery.
	www.cookpolar.org /meighan.htm (3475 words)

	Science News for Kids: Feature: Fossil Forests (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The island lies 1,000 miles north of Alaska and 700 miles from the North Pole.
		Axel Heiberg Island (shown in red) is one of the northernmost islands in Canada's Arctic.
		Jahren is using chemical analyses to measure the proportions of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and other elements in the Axel Heiberg fossils.
	sciencenewsforkids.org /articles/20070110/Feature1.asp (918 words)

	Glaciology on Axel Heiberg Island: Historical Background
		Axel Heiberg Island, in Canada's High Arctic, Nunavut, was discovered by Otto Sverdrup during his Norwegian Polar Expedition of 1898-1902.
		McMillan's observations of Bunde Glacier, in northwest Axel Heiberg Island, are the earliest glaciological observations on the ground to have found their way into a scientific publication (McMillan, N.J., 1998, Observations of the terminus of Bunde Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, in 1955 and 1983, Arctic, 51, 55-57).
		In 1983 Peter Adams was invited to return to Axel Heiberg Island, and under his direction and later that of Graham Cogley the measurement programme on White Glacier has been maintained by Trent University up to the time of writing (2006).
	www.trentu.ca /academic/geography/glaciology/glaxhist.htm (873 words)

	AllRefer.com - Axel Heiberg Island (Arctic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Axel Heiberg Island[ak´sul hI´burg] Pronunciation Key, 13,583 sq mi (35,180 sq km), in the Arctic Ocean, N Nunavut Territory, Canada, W of Ellesmere Island.
		It was named by the Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup (who explored it 1898–1902) for one of his patrons.
		The island's plateau surface (3,000–6,000 ft/915–1,830 m high) is deeply indented by fjords.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AxelHeib.html (170 words)

	Arctic Redwood Fossils Are Clues to Ancient Climates
		Summary Axel Heiberg Island, near the North Pole, was lush with redwood forests, ferns, flowering plants, and animals 45 million years ago.
		Axel Heiberg Island, at 82 degrees north and just a stone's throw from the North Pole, was once a great vacation spot—during the Eocene epoch, about 45 million years ago.
		Hope Jahren, a geobiologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, is using wood fossils from Axel Heiberg to discover prehistoric weather patterns that enabled this now bleak, cold, and dry desert to support such a rich array of life.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/03/0326_020326_TVredwoods.html (629 words)

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		The distribution of glacially transported erratics in the westernmost Canadian Arctic Archipelago was mapped on western Axel Heiberg and Meighen islands, Nunavut.
		Forty km to the west of Axel Heiberg Island, on the continental shelf, Meighen Island is capped by unconsolidated sand of the Neogene Beaufort Formation (Thorsteinsson, 1961).
		The absence of granite on northeastern Meighen Island and the Fay Islands suggests that most of a trunk glacier in Sverdrup Channel was fed directly from Axel Heiberg Island ice which displaced regional granite-bearing ice farther to the west.
	www.colorado.edu /INSTAAR/ArcticWS/data/abstr/66.html (435 words)

	ALIAS
		The McGill Arctic Research Station (MARS) was established in 1960 at Expedition Fjord on Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian high Arctic.
		McMillan's observations of Bunde Glacier, in northwest Axel Heiberg Island, are the earliest glaciological observations on the ground to have found their way into a scientific publication (McMillan, N.J., 1998, Observations of the terminus of Bunde Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, in 1955 and 1983, Arctic,51, 55-57).
		The programme of glaciological measurement and investigation was maintained by the Centre for Northern Studies and Research, McGill University, Montreal, which published a series of "Axel Heiberg Island Research Reports" containing much of the scientific contribution made by the Expedition.
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	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		The fossils were found in the summer of 1996 on Axel Heiberg Island by a team led by geophysicist John Tarduno of the University of Rochester.
		The first piece of the puzzle was uncovered when Tarduno took his team of students up to Axel Heiberg to take samples of hardened, unusually thick volcanic rock on the island.
		Therefore, for a champsosaur population to survive on the island, the mean annual temperatures in the high Arctic during the late Cretaceous period must have been about 14 degrees Celsius -- much warmer than the zero degree mean previously assumed.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1998/12/21/53.asp (784 words)

	axel heiberg island (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Terrain: Many of the fjords of western Axel Heiberg island are bounded by ridges and peaks composed of flood basalts.
		The island is only 1,100 km south of the North Pole.
		History: Axel Heiberg island in the Canadian arctic was first explored at the turn of the century by members of Otto Sverdrup's expedition.
	www.adventurepages.com /Srch.asp?Term=Axel+Heiberg+Island (120 words)

	Comments on University of Pennsylvania Research in the Fossil Forest of Axel Heiberg Island
		As described in the proposal, the theme that ties our different research projects together is a test of the often-used axiom that the ecological and climatic conditions of paleoecosystems can be accurately inferred from knowing the climatic tolerances, physiological characteristics and ecological characteristics of the "nearest living relatives" of the ancient flora.
		For example, the Eocene climate of Axel Heiberg Island has been inferred by Basinger et al.
		Basinger and Grattan and by various reporters regarding "damage" to the site is based on an incomplete knowledge of our protocols, and a lack of understanding of what the site looked like at the conclusion of our field work.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /earth/arctic/AXELAX2.html (2963 words)

	Nunatsiaq News
		AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND, Nunavut —; Canadian researchers in the High Arctic are furious that U.S. researchers have dug up a unique fossil forest site on Axel Heiberg Island, apparently violating Canadian guidelines for the site's use.
		At stake is a 45-million-year-old fossil forest that lies in the barren Geodetic Hills of Axel Heiberg Island, about 700 kilometers south of the North Pole, just off Ellesmere Island.
		The Americans arrived on Axel Heiberg Island on June 29 to spend five weeks there at the fossil forest site.
	www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut990730/nvt90723_01.html (945 words)

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