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	Hinterland Who's Who - Greater Snow Goose
		Bylot Island, which lies off the northeast coast of Baffin Island, and where the most important Greater Snow Goose breeding colony in the world is found, became a federal Migratory Bird Sanctuary in 1965.
		Bylot Island and adjacent areas on Baffin Island are also part of Sirmilik National Park, which was established in 1999.
		Lemieux, L. The breeding biology of the Greater Snow Goose on Bylot Island, Northwest Territories.
	www.ffdp.ca /hww2.asp?id=44 (2669 words)

	Bylot Island (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Its importance for seabirds was recognized in 1965 when the island and surrounding waters were designated as a migratory BIRD SANCTUARY.
		Inuit from Baffin Island have visited seasonally and a trading station operated at Button Point on the southeastern corner for several years after 1910, but there are no settlements today.
		To the east the island overlooks a part of BAFFIN BAY, which was much frequented by European whalers in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001145 (199 words)

	Canada Nunavut backpacking ecotour adventure trips: Bylot Island backpacking: Sirmilik National Park (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bylot Island is a spectacular area of rugged mountains, icefields and glaciers, coastal lowlands and seabird colonies.
		Bylot Island is a major summer retreat for polar bears.
		Bylot Island is adjacent to Lancaster Sound, a major migration route and summering area of marine mammals.
	www.equinoxexpeditions.com /bylot_island_.html (1068 words)

	Parks Canada - Sirmilik National Park of Canada - Natural Wonders & Cultural Treasures
		Bylot Island is a Migratory Bird Sanctuary which lies adjacent to the north-eastern tip of Baffin Island, where Lancaster Sound enters Baffin Bay.
		The southwest corner of Bylot Island consists of 1600 km2 of moist lowland tundra - ideal nesting habitat for songbirds, shorebirds, and waterfowl, especially geese.
		Bylot Island experiences fairly high levels of precipitation, which contribute to a diverse flora.
	www.pc.gc.ca /pn-np/nu/sirmilik/natcul/natcul3_e.asp (855 words)

	Robert Bylot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Little is known about his life, even though Bylot Island, one of the more dramatic of the Arctic Islands, was named to honour him, but he is considered one of the most daring of the early explorers in the Canadian Arctic.
		Bylot was the mate on Hudson's ship Discovery when they first sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay.
		Robert Bylot and his crew were the first Europeans to see Jones, Lancaster and Smith Straits, important waterways which were named after patrons of the voyage, Alderman Jones, Sir James Lancaster and Sir Thomas Smith.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Bylot (404 words)

	Baffin Island
		The island was first discovered by Europeans in 1576 and was used extensively in the whaling industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.
		The topography of the island is highly varied, ranging from the most rugged mountains to the flattest lowlands of the Canadian Arctic.
		Lying off the northeastern coast of Baffin Island, Bylot Island is almost completely covered in an ice cap, which is pierced by mountain peaks and ridges.
	www.arctic.uoguelph.ca /cpe/environments/maps/detailed/islands/baffin.htm (460 words)

	Robert Bylot - ExploreNorth
		Except for Bylot's skills in navigation, the rest of the crew likely would have suffered the same fate as those abandoned in the bay.
		Robert Bylot and his crew were the first Europeans to see Jones, Lancaster and Smith Straits, important waterways which were named after patrons of the voyage, Alderman Jones, Sir James Lancaster and Sir Thomas Smith.
		Bylot successfully sailed back to England, but nothing is known about his life after that point.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/bios/bl-bylot.htm (344 words)

	Bylot Island (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bylot Island is included in the boundaries of the Sirmilik National Park which will open in 1999.
		The cliffs of Bylot Island have long been a nesting ground for thousands of thick-billed murres and fl-legged kitiwakes.
		The low, flat wetlands in the southwest corner of Bylot Island form the nesting grounds for the world's largest colony of greater snow geese.
	www.nunanet.com /~jtagak/imagemap/bylot.htm (73 words)

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		Nearby Bylot Island is heavily glacierized; it has 4,859 km2 of its area covered by glaciers, about 45 percent of the island.
		On Baffin Island, the major glaciers, such as the Barnes Ice Cap, either occupy inland highland areas or are ice fields and associated valley outlet glaciers (Bylot Island) (Sugden and John, 1976), or they are combinations of both (Penny Ice Cap) (fig.
		For Bylot Island, the glacierized parts of the northern Brodeur Peninsula, Borden Peninsula, and the nearby area southwest of Pond Inlet are covered by 1;50,000-scale topographic maps.
	pubs.usgs.gov /pp/p1386j/baffinisland/baffinisland.txt (12686 words)

	Hiking Expedition Sirmilik National Park North Baffin
		Departing from Pond Inlet by chartered motor boat we cross Eclipse Sound to Bylot Island, landing on a deserted sandy beach to begin a week of hiking and exploring.
		Known to contain fifty different species of birds (of which thirty are known to breed) this island sanctuary is also known to contain more than three hundred species of plant life.
		Bylot is one of the Arctic's most beautiful islands and this trekking expedition highlights much of the natural beauty.
	www.visitnunavut.com /baffinhikingexpedition.html (301 words)

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		Bylot Island lies off the northern end of Baffin Island in Nunavut Territory, Canada.
		There are no permanent settlements on the island, Inuit from Pond Inlet and elsewhere regularly travel to the island.
		Almost all of the island is within the Sirmilik National Park, harbouring large populations of thick-billed murres, fl-legged kittiwakes and greater snow geese.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Bylot_Island (124 words)

	Ecological Studies and Environmental Monitoring at Bylot Island, Sirmilk National Park
		As Bylot Island has the largest breeding colony of Greater Snow Geese in the Canadian High Arctic, it provides an exceptional setting for the study of the species’ breeding ecology and its impact on the Arctic habitat.
		Non-breeders or failed nesters thus leave the island for molting areas that provide a better protection against predators, unlike parental birds that stay with their young and molt with them on Bylot Island.
		On Bylot Island, the main cause of nesting failure for Snow Geese is predation.
	www.cen.ulaval.ca /bylot/ecomon-anispec-greatersnowgoose.htm (1906 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Recent investigations on Bylot Island, located off the northeastern shore of Baffin Island in the Eastern Canadian Arctic, determined that--of the 18 glaciers in the study area--10 demonstrated noticeable signs of retreat (i.e.
		This research project attempts to explain the disparate advance and retreat patterns identified on Bylot Island despite the juxtaposition of similar-sized glaciers in the study area.
		A synoptic analysis of glacier hypsometry for Bylot Island combined with an approximation of the Equilibrium Line Altitude (ELA) is being used to determine the sensitivity of selected glaciers to changes in the ELA (and thus to changes in climate).
	www.colorado.edu /INSTAAR/ArcticWS/data/abstr/48.html (431 words)

	THE BREEDING BIOLOGY OF SHOREBIRDS ON BYLOT ISLAND, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, CANADA
		Bylot Island, together with Arctic Bay, where Shortt and Peters (1942) collected juveniles, seems to be the northeasternmost recorded breeding of White-rumped Sandpipers.
		The 1954 Bylot Island Expedition spent from 12 June to 29 July at the mouth of the Aktineq River, at approximately latitude 73 ø N, longitude 79 ø W, in southern Bylot Island.
		Bylot is between the Low and High Arctic just north of Baffin Island and south of the eastern end of Devon Island.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v078n02/p0176-p0219.html (20881 words)

	Dance of the glaciers clue to climate change
		On majestic, uninhabited Bylot Island, next to Baffin Island in Canada’s far north, the glaciers do a slow dance as some retreat and some advance.
		As well, Bylot Island is located in the middle of several different weather patterns; so weather effects can be studied relatively easily.
		The other side of Bylot Island is home to many birds, but the side where Frédéric Walter and Brian Moorman work is devoid of wildlife, except for the occasional dead rodent or the odd bird flying.
	www.topdraw.com /clients/_notes/albertaingenuity/youth_education/cool_stories/glaciers_climate.htm (814 words)

	Welcome to Polar Sea Adventures
		Bylot Island, located North of Pond Inlet, offers some of the best hiking in the Arctic.
		Bylot Island looms before us, filling our eyes and senses, becoming a stunning and impressive sight.
		Group size will be kept small to ensure the least impact on the fragile environment and the most will be made of the constant daylight that still exists at this time of year.
	www.polarseaadventures.com /english/hiking.htm (427 words)

	UQAR - Chaire en conservation des écosystèmes nordiques (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bylot: Bylot Island is part of the Sirmilik canadian national park in the Canadian high arctic.
		The island geography is dominated by a glacier and some tundra where are nesting every year thousands of greater snow geese.
		The Canada research chair in conservation of northern ecosystems and the Mingan Island Cetacean Study are collaborating on a study of habitat selection by rorqual whales since 2001.
	www.uqar.uquebec.ca /chairedb/sitean.html (456 words)

	GEO_PLATE_G-8.HTML (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bylot Island is centered at about 73°15´N latitude and 78°30´W longitude and is located to the east of the Borden Peninsula off the northeast part of Baffin Island (see Figure G-5.2).
		On the west coast of Bylot Island, two prominent glacial deltas are extending new land into Navy Board Inlet from sediment-laden glacial meltwater emanating from two major glacier systems in each valley (P).
		Figure G-8.1 is a Landsat-3 RBV of the northeast part of Bylot Island.
	daac.gsfc.nasa.gov /geomorphology/GEO_9/GEO_PLATE_G-8.HTML (903 words)

	Robert Bylot Summary
		Bylot was one of a number of explorers who scoured the Arctic for a Northwest Passage to Asia.
		Little is known about his life, even though Bylot Island, one of the more dramatic of the Arctic Islands, was named to honour him, but he is considered one of the most daring of the early explorers in the Canadian Arctic.
		Bylot was the mate on Hudson's ship Discovery when they first sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay.
	www.bookrags.com /Robert_Bylot (474 words)

	ABSTRACT: A Late Pliocene glacial-interglacial transition on Bylot Island, Canadian Arctic. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bylot Island is located in the high eastern Arctic, north of Baffin Island (73°N, 80°W), more than 2000 km north of the present day tree line.
		Actually, more than the half (5000 km2) of the island is covered by an ice cap and its outlet glaciers.
		It is roughly correlative to other ones such the “Beaver Pond” at Strathcona Fjord on Ellesmere Island and Cape Kobenvahn at the northern tip of Greenland.
	cgrg.geog.uvic.ca /abstracts/PirauxABylot.html (462 words)

	Bylot Island Ski Traverse (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bylot Island is a wildlife sanctuary located just north of Baffin Island.
		From our high point we skied down another un-named glacier on the south west corner of Bylot Island, where we were met by an Inuk who carried our sleds and gear back to Pond Inlet by snowmobile.
		We enjoyed the magnificent views of Bylot Island while we skied the 30 Km back to Pond Inlet carrying only day packs.
	www.canadianarcticholidays.ca /Bylot2003.html (294 words)

	A national park to yourself -- glaciers, bears and waterfalls included / Canada's Arctic preserve awash in silent beauty
		The park's fourth and largest segment is the Bylot Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary, a 4,300-square-mile island half covered with glaciers.
		Bylot disappeared into an eerily dark fog bank halfway across Eclipse Sound, and when we burst free into sunshine again it was just in time to see a rainbow and the misty blow of a passing bowhead whale.
		Bylot has been a migratory bird sanctuary since 1965, protecting 74 bird species, including the world's largest population of snow geese.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/18/TRG1SJDJ871.DTL (1817 words)

	Bylot Island - May 2003
		Bylot Island is at the northern end of Baffin Island just below the 38 on this map.
		We leave Pond Inlet on Baffin Island with a nice view of Bylot Island across the sound.
		As we ski the last 30 Km diagonally across Eclipse Sound to Pond Inlet, we have spectacular views of Bylot Island.
	www.wholey.net /Bylot/Bylot.html (280 words)

	Nunatsiaq News
		Foxes can point to changes in the ecosystem because they live on both the tundra and sea ice, depending on the time of year, and rely on other animals, such as birds and seals, for their survival.
		A team of Quebec researchers, students and field assistants from Pond Inlet are studying fox populations on the southeast end of Bylot Island, an area that lies within the boundaries of Sirmilik National Park, to better understand what is happening to the ecosystem there.
		The total fox population on this part of Bylot Island is small, about 110 animals - numbering far fewer than the 60,000 or so greater snow geese that breed and nest on its wetlands every year.
	www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/40806/news/nunavut/40806_06.html (817 words)

	Allen Smutylo: 1999: Bylot Island (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bylot is an uninhabited island; huge and magnificent in it's assortment of gable castled mountains, flowing glaciers, vertical granite
		(Previous to becoming a National Park, Bylot Island was a Bird Sanctuary.) The surrounding waters are teaming with life of all descriptions including a variety of marine mammals; bowhead and killer whales, beluga, narwhal, walrus and ringed, harp and bearded seals.
		Upon reaching Tay Bay at the north west corner of the island (read Alvin Simon's North in the Night, 1997) we found that our cache barrel of food, which we had been fantasying about for two weeks, had been broken into and eaten by a polar bear.
	www.makersgallery.com /smutylo/bylot.html (407 words)

	Canadian Arctic Archipelago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The climate of the islands is arctic, and the terrain consists of tundra except in mountainous areas.
		Most of the islands are uninhabited; human settlement is extremely thin and scattered, being mainly coastal Inuit settlements on the southern islands.
		Hans Island, in the Nares Strait east of Ellesmere Island, is a territory currently contested between Canada and Denmark.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canadian_Arctic_islands (396 words)

	Ecological Studies and Environmental Monitoring at Bylot Island, Sirmilk National Park
		Since we analysed weather data in Pond Inlet to have a broader idea of the climate trend in the Bylot Island Region, we compared the air temperature of those two places to verify if, indeed, it was similar in both areas.
		The comparison was made with air temperature data from 1994 to 2002, years for which we have data for both Pond Inlet and Bylot Island.
		The main difference is that Bylot Island’s winter temperature is slightly colder than that of Pond Inlet.
	www.cen.ulaval.ca /bylot/climate-description-bylotislandvspondinlet.htm (158 words)

	A national park to yourself -- glaciers, bears and waterfalls included / Canada's Arctic preserve awash in silent beauty
		The park's fourth and largest segment is the Bylot Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary, a 4,300-square-mile island half covered with glaciers.
		Bylot disappeared into an eerily dark fog bank halfway across Eclipse Sound, and when we burst free into sunshine again it was just in time to see a rainbow and the misty blow of a passing bowhead whale.
		Bylot has been a migratory bird sanctuary since 1965, protecting 74 bird species, including the world's largest population of snow geese.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/18/TRG1SJDJ871.DTL (1940 words)

	Nunatsiaq News
		The size of the ancient tree trunk found on Bylot Island becomes clearer when it’s placed near a weather haven.
		Forest layers the same age as Bylot Island’s have also been found on Axel Heiberg Island, Ellesmere Island and Banks Islands.
		But Bylot Island’s new forest is the most southerly fossil forest found in the High Arctic.
	www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut020125/news/nunavut/20125_3.html (689 words)

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