Murder Near the North Pole, Part II: Death on an Ice Island
In 1970, the world’s northernmost murder took place on a drifting ice island in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. It was a ...
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Inside the harsh lives of wolves living at the top of the world
There is probably no other place on Earth where this would happen. It’s why I traveled to Ellesmere Island, high in the Canadian Arctic, joining a documentary film crew. The landscape is so ...
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Murder Near the North Pole, Part III: The Death of Peeawahto
In 1914, explorer Fitzhugh Green shot and killed his Inuit guide Peeawahto at the northern tip of Axel Heiberg Island. This ...
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Ellesmere Island: Take a Glimpse At The Top of The World
Stunning timelapse photography as the seasons change reveals a surprising and other-worldly landscape. Canadian time-lapse photographer and cameraman Alain Lusignan shot these wonderful images of ...
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The world's 10 largest islands revealed as three in the same country
Also in Canada is eighth place, Victoria Island, and tenth place, Ellesmere Island. Victoria Island is 83,897 square miles and Ellesmere Island is 75,767 square miles. Victoria Island is named for ...
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Wolves thrive in some of the harshest places on Earth
On Ellesmere Island, the sun sets at the end of October and doesn’t rise again until the end of February. During those four months of darkness, the wolves hunt by moonlight and starlight ...
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Earth from space: 4 near-identical glaciers spark new life in Arctic island's 'polar desert'
They are located along the northern ridge of the Oobloyah Valley at the heart of Ellesmere Island, the 10th-largest island on Earth and Canada's most northern landmass. Ellesmere Island is a ...