Devon Island
Americannoun
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The remarkably well-preserved fossil skeleton was uncovered in ancient lakebed sediments at Haughton Crater on Devon Island in Nunavut.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 24, 2026
“It looks like Mars,” says Keith of where they are anchored, in Devon Island.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024
Off Devon Island, the largest uninhabited island in the world, they risked running aground due to the area being poorly charted.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024
Compared with the landscapes of Devon Island, fistfuls of regolith simulant or even a test-tube moon, Dr. Hörst’s lab planets lack physicality.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
The wind had driven a mass of ice up through Prince Regent Inlet, and its reaching fangs threatened to dash the ship ashore on North Devon Island.
From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
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