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	The Canadian Arctic Islands, an introduction
		The islands are located East of Northern Greenland, at the fringes of the Arctic Ocean, and mark the northern boundary of Canada.
		Axel Heiberg Island at 79-81 degrees latitude has the same size as Switzerland or Holland, rough 300 by 150 km, a population of zero people and a small reseach station, a single simple cabin, near the 10 km wide Thompson Glacier [1] and was built in the 60's by glaciologists of McGill University of Montreal.
		On Ellesmere Island, Eureka, the weather station, and Lake Hazen, the only national park allowed to be visited by tourists, are enclosed by mountain ranges and form a warm oasis with temperatures of 4-8 degrees Celsius in the summer.
	p6.hostingprod.com /@treks.org/a_intro.htm (2665 words)

	Canadian Arctic islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The islands form the northernmost region of North America, but are a remote wilderness far removed from the populated areas of the continent.
		The group of islands is bounded on the west by the Beaufort Sea, on the north by the Arctic Sea, on the east by Greenland, Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, and on the south by Hudson Bay and the mainland of Canada.
		The climate of the islands is arctic, and the terrain consists of tundra except in mountainous areas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arctic_Islands_(Canada) (311 words)

	Civilization.ca - Canadian Arctic Expedition - Collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Among the thirty-two recognised subspecies of the gray wolf are several circumpolar subspecies known as Arctic or tundra wolves.
		In the northern Arctic islands, wolves may be pure white or white with flish or reddish markings, especially on the shoulders and tail.
		Wolf pups are born in a den dug by the female in soft soil.
	www.civilization.ca /hist/cae/col1111be.html (810 words)

	Encyclopedia: Canadian Arctic islands
		The Sverdrup Islands are an archipelago of the northern Queen Elizabeth Islands, in Nunavut, Canada.
		The North Pole is not the coldest spot in the Arctic, because its climate is moderated by the ocean.
		To the north of this region is the broad Canadian Shield, an area of rock scoured clean by the last ice age, thinly soiled, rich in minerals, and dotted with lakes and rivers—over 60% of the world's lakes are in Canada.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Canadian-Arctic-islands (1112 words)

	MSN Encarta - Arctic
		The principal geological elements of the Arctic include parts of three ancient landmasses, composed predominantly of granite and gneiss, which are called shields—the Baltic-Scandinavian-Russian Shield, the Angara Shield or Siberian Platform (in north central Siberia), and the Canadian Shield (including all the Canadian Arctic except for the Queen Elizabeth Islands).
		Mountain ranges are in the eastern Arctic region of Canada (notably on Baffin Island), in Yukon Territory, in northern Alaska, in coastal Greenland, in Iceland, and in northeastern Siberia.
		For instance, on the Greenland ice cap average midwinter temperatures are -33° C (-27° F), whereas adjacent coastal settlements, whose climates are moderated by the relatively warm ocean, typically have a mean temperature of -7° C (19° F) in the same period.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761577860 (709 words)

	Canadian Arctic - Arctic Countries - All Things Arctic
		At the westernmost boundary of Canada's mainland Arctic is the Yukon Plateau, consisting of rolling uplands with valleys and isolated mountains.
		The northernmost land is Ellesmere Island, where the Agassiz ice cap covers much of the central part of the island.
		The shield is a vast glaciated plain dotted with lakes, taiga forests, with tundra being the predominant ecosystems.
	www.allthingsarctic.com /countries/canada.aspx (629 words)

	Arctic Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Conditions typical of Arctic lands are extreme fluctuations between summer and winter temperatures; permanent snow and ice in the high country and grasses, sedges, and low shrubs in the lowlands; and permanently frozen ground (permafrost), the surface layer of which is subject to summer thawing.
		Subsequent touristic has elevated marine beaches and sediments to considerable heights in many parts of the Arctic, where their origin is easily recognized from the presence of marine shells, the skeletons of sea mammals, and driftwood.
		Subsequent touristic has elevated marine beaches and sediments to considerable heights in many parts of the Arctic, Travel and Tourism where their origin is easily recognized from the presence of marine shells, the skeletons of sea mammals, and driftwood.
	www.geographicguide.com /arctic-map.htm (3745 words)

	GLIMS: Bibliograppy - Glacier-Climate Interactions in the Canadian High Arctic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Neoglacial fluctuations of glaciers, southeastern Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
		Blatter, H. On the thermal regime of high Arctic glaciers: a study of the White Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island, and the Laika Glacier, Coburg Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
		Sagar, R.B. Meteorological and Glaciological Observations on the Gilman Glacier, northern Ellesmere Island, 1961.
	www.glims.org /assets/IceImages/Info/canada_refs.html (2657 words)

	Arctic Archipelago -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		The southeastern islands are an extension of the Canadian Shield; the balance consists of the Arctic lowlands to the south and the Innuitian Mountains to the north.
		The southeastern islands are an extension of the Canadian Shield.
		The Baffin Island Current, flowing at a rate of about 11 miles (17 km) per day, is a combination of West Greenland Current inflow and the outflow of cold Arctic Ocean water from the channels of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9355731 (849 words)

	IPY: International Polar Year
		Canadian researchers operating throughout the Arctic Archipelago have demonstrated substantial leadership concerning the investigation of high latitude environmental change and this proposal emphasizes the opportunity for Canada to organize a compelling international program seeded by its own scientist accomplishments.
		The proposed study of the Arctic Ocean basin is relevant to all six of the IPY themes.
		The Canadian radiocarbon database housing analyzed driftwood, whalebone and marine shells is available in CARDBOX (Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa) and for Arctic samples a parallel data base using the same software is available at the University of Alberta.
	www.ipy.org /development/eoi/details.php?id=127 (2272 words)

	The Arctic Mirage
		The arctic or superior mirage is quite the opposite phenomenon from the desert or inferior mirage, which is familiar to all highway travelers as an apparent pool of water lying on the roadway disappearing as it is approached.
		The arctic mirage can thus cause polar explorers to underestimate the distance of landmarks in new lands, and these distances may be miscalculated by as much as three to five hundred kilometres (two to three hundred miles).
		From the 2,226-m (7,300-ft) peak of Hrafnsgnipa on the western Greenland coast to the 2166-m (7,100-ft) coastal mountains of Cape Dyer on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic is 440 km (274 miles).
	www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/history/artmirge.htm (2680 words)

	Arctic: Multi-island seasonal home range use by two Peary caribou, Canadian High Arctic Islands, Nunavut, 1993-94 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The High Arctic Islands are subject to prolonged periods of frigid temperatures and frequent strong winds, set in darkness from November to February, and blanketed by snow and ice for 9 - 10 months of each year.
		However, northern Bathurst Island and the five smaller islands off its northwest coast all lie north of the northern limit of prostrate shrub and sedge dominance, and much of the study area is dominated by herbaceous species (Edlund, 1983, 1990; Edlund and Alt, 1989).
		1: Ile Vanier, 1126 km[Symbol Not Transcribed]; Cameron Island, 1059 km[Symbol Not Transcribed]; Alexander Island, 484 km[Symbol Not Transcribed]; Massey Island, 432 km[Symbol Not Transcribed]; and Ile Marc, 56 km[Symbol Not Transcribed]).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3712/is_200206/ai_n9087485 (1372 words)

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		It stretches from the northern boundaries of the Canadian provinces to within 500 miles (800 kilometers) of the North Pole.
		The District of Franklin (549,253 square miles, or 1,422,559 square kilometers) includes the Canadian Arctic islands and the Melville and Boothia peninsulas in the northeast.
		The Arctic islands, north of Mc-Clure Strait and Lancaster Sound, are known as the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
	www.clickatutor.com /BasePUB.asp?pid=2267 (465 words)

	Civilization.ca - The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Civilization.ca - The Inuvialuit of the Western Arctic
		he Inuit living in the western Canadian Arctic call themselves "Inuvialuit" or "real human beings." Their homeland stretches from the Alaskan border east to Amundsen Gulf and the western edge of the Canadian Arctic Islands.
		It is a land of rolling tundra and high, rocky mountains, bisected by the labyrinth of the Mackenzie River Delta.
	www.civilization.ca /aborig/inuvial/indexe.html (150 words)

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		On Axel Heiberg Island, the broad, lobate ice is on the east side, and the outlet valley-type glaciers are on the west (fig.
		Because the Canadian ice-core sites are in the central and highest parts of their respective ice caps, it suggests that the Canadian High Arctic islands were ice free during some part of that same interglacial (Koerner, 1989).
		The importance of glacier calving and basal-ice melt by the sea under floating glacier tongues in the High Arctic islands is poorly understood.
	pubs.usgs.gov /prof/p1386j/hiarctic/hiarctic.txt (14107 words)

	Articles - Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The term "Canadian Confederation" refers to this 1867 unification of the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec (formerly Canada East or Lower Canada), and Ontario (formerly Canada West or Upper Canada).
		The Canadian Maritimes protrude eastward from the southern coasts of Quebec.
		Many Canadian citizens see Canadian culture as based on the policy of multiculturalism, while others see it as based on a predominantly British and French core, with American and new immigrant influences and modifications.
	www.go-trucks.com /articles/Canada (5698 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Opportunities and Priorities in Arctic Geoscience (1991)
		4 Rationale for Focusing on the Arctic Ocean Basin and Its..., pp.
		A primary objective of seismological research in the Arctic Ocean Basin is to determine the structure of the crust and upper mantle beneath the basins, ridges, and continental margins of the Amerasia Basin.
		Along the Canadian Arctic Islands, for example, clusters of earthquakes with magnitudes approaching 6 are associated with positive gravity anomalies.
	www.nap.edu /openbook/0309044855/html/29.html (764 words)

	Canada
		Canada, federated country of North America, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean; on the northeast by Baffin Bay and Davis Strait, which separate it from Greenland; on the east by the Atlantic Ocean; on the south by the United States; and on the west by the Pacific Ocean and Alaska.
		The former embraces Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, and the GaspÃ© Peninsula of QuÃ©bec.
		To the west of the Canadian Rockies is a region occupied by numerous isolated ranges, notably the Cariboo, Stikine, and Selkirk mountains, and a vast plateau region.
	www.cmxyonda.info /country/ca.html (1220 words)

	Canadian Arctic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Canadian Arctic is a vast region of northern Canada.
		Technically the term covers that portion of Canada north of the Arctic Circle; a more practical definition is that portion north of the tree line, a definition that includes the country's geographical centre.
		Canada claims that its territorial waters extend all the way north to the North Pole, although this claim is not recognized by other countries, particularly the United States.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Canadian_Arctic (614 words)

	Arctic Region Maps - North Pole
		Arctic Region Maps and globe - North Pole map, Greenland, Canada, Russia Europe.
		Norway's arctic fjords, Iceland, Greenland whales, seals and walruses, and incredible sea bird colonies.
		Global View of the Arctic Ocean during Winter, representation by NASA
	www.maps-continents.com /globe-arctic.htm (1973 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.
		The Candian Arctic is a stunningly beautiful place, but unfortunately it is one of the least accessible parts of Canada.
		Purple saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia) from west of Resolute Bay, Cornwallis Island, July, 1993.
	www.geo.ucalgary.ca /~macrae/arctic/arctic.html (541 words)

	DIALOG/DISCCRS Dissertation Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Environmental change in the Canadian Arctic islands was assessed using three interrelated approaches; limnological, phycological, and paleolimnological analyses.
		The response of a high arctic lake (Meretta Lake) to decreased eutrophication following the effects of nearly 50 years of raw sewage inputs was assessed using phycological and paleolimnological approaches.
		An annual diatom-based monitoring approach, representing the longest, continuous algal-monitoring program in the High Arctic, revealed that diatom assemblages in moss and rock habitats were tracking changes in the lake’s nutrient levels.
	aslo.org /phd/dialog/200203-21.html (462 words)

	North America Arctic Islands
		Composed of Greenland and the adjacent Canadian Arctic islands, this vast area is a largely barren expanse of tundra, icecap, and peaks surrounded by an endless maze of often-frozen waterways.
		The bounaries of the North American Arctic Islands Range2 are clear--it includes Greenland and all islands north of the Canadian mainland and Hudson Bay.
		The western Canadian Arctic Islands (for example, Banks, Victoria, and Melville) are very low and flat, but the eastern edge of this group rises to high, impressive cliffs and summits that border Baffin Bay on Baffin, Bylot, Devon, and Ellesmere Islands.
	www.peakbagger.com /range.aspx?rid=11 (317 words)

	New Scientist Premium- Review: The missing Arctic - Review
		Canada's Missing Dimension: Science and History in Canadian Arctic Islands Volumes 1 and 2 edited by C R Harington, Canadian Museum of Nature, pp 855, Canadian $25 plus $10 postage.
		Perhaps that is why so few Canadian politicians, including the ones who pay for science, see the Arctic as much more than a source of minerals, oil, sovereignty problems, and revenue from military bases.
		A group of mostly Canadian geologists, biologists and anthropologists met in 1987 to compare studies of the vast Arctic archipelago.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg12817424.800.html (256 words)

	Canadian Geothermal Data Collection: Deep permafrost temperatures and thickness of permafrost: References and ...
		ALL 1983 Taylor, A.E., Judge, A.S., and Desrochers, D. Shoreline Regression: Its effect on permafrost and the geothermal regime, Canadian Arctic Archipelago; in Proceedings, Fourth International Conference on Permafrost, Fairbanks, Alaska, National Academy Press, Washington, p.
		601 1990 Taylor, A. Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction from deep ground temperatures, Canadian Arctic Archipelago: a comparison with climatic inferences from the _18O record of ice cores; Annals of Glaciology 14, 359-360.
		AI 1990 Taylor, A. Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction from deep ground temperatures: a comparison with paleoclimate derived from the _18O record in an ice core at the Agassiz Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Journal of Glaciology 37, 209-219.
	nsidc.org /data/docs/fgdc/ggd503_boreholes_ncanada/bibliography.html (2613 words)

	GSC Calgary - Canadian Arctic Islands: List of maps and reports
		NORTHERN ELLESMERE ISLAND (GSC BULLETINS 224, 237, 425, 430)
		CENTRAL ELLESMERE ISLAND (GSC BULLETINS 224, 237, 302, 401, 430)
		AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND (GSC BULLETINS 224, 237, 425)
	gsc.nrcan.gc.ca /org/calgary/pub/arcticpublist_e.php (423 words)

	Population size of Peary caribou in the Canadian Arctic islands - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal
		There have been catastrophic declines in the Peary caribou on the Arctic islands of North America and they are now considered endangered.
		Population size of Peary caribou in the Canadian Arctic islands.
		Population size of Peary caribou in the Canadian Arctic islands, http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/population-size-of-peary-caribou-in-the-canadian-arctic-islands (Last visited September 27, 2007).
	maps.grida.no /go/graphic/population-size-of-peary-caribou-in-the-canadian-arctic-islands (548 words)

	The Arctic Islands Northwest Territories Canada, Canadian Arctic Islands Birding Tours
		The Arctic Islands in the Northwest Territories are:
		The Banks Island have a population of number in the hundreds.
		Many of the residents of Read Island moved to the community of Ulukaktok including Billy Joss who is honoured each year with an annual golf tournament at the
	www.arcticcharinn.com /arctic-islands.htm (182 words)

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