Axel Heiberg

American  

[ak-suhl hahy-burg] / ˈæk səl ˈhaɪ bɜrg /

noun

1. the largest island belonging to the Sverdrup group in the Canadian Northwest Territories. 15,779 sq. mi. (40,868 sq. km).

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Example Sentences

During one chopper run in 1985, a pilot named Paul Tudge was shuttling supplies between distant camps on Canada’s Axel Heiberg Island and Eureka Sound, two of the North’s most spectacular places.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2013

“I’m leading the Norwegian route up the Axel Heiberg glacier from the Bay of Whales, and a friend of mine is going to do the Scott route, which I did a few years ago.”

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2011

He had once seen McMillan's fossil forest, and on a flight to Axel Heiberg in July 1985, Tudge recalls, "I saw the same sort of stumps, but many, many of them."

From Time Magazine Archive

First to spot the fossil forest was Paul Tudge, a helicopter pilot who has been ferrying Geological Survey scientists to and from remote sites on Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere for years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally Consul Axel Heiberg and Mr. Dick subscribed an additional £337 10s. each, while I myself made up the deficiency that still remained on the eve of our departure.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I by Nansen, Fridtjof