Ellesmere Island
Americannoun
noun
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Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic is a treeless, rocky and bitterly cold wilderness, with large parts covered by thick glaciers.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 25, 2023
Situated on a Canadian body of land known as Ellesmere Island, Lake Hazen is drop-for-drop the largest freshwater lake in the High Arctic.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2022
The craggy outcropping — Tartupaluk in Inuit — lies between Canada’s Ellesmere Island and Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2022
Now, every year, we’ve seen open water along the entire coast of Ellesmere Island.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2020
The Feast of Names was celebrated last August by two stalwart crusaders at the weather station at Buchanan Bay on desolate Ellesmere Island, latitude seventy-nine, less than seven hundred miles from the North Pole.
From Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957 by Shoghi Effendi
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