Ellesmere Island

[elz-meer]

noun

1. an island in the Arctic Ocean, NW of Greenland: a part of Canada. 76,600 sq. mi. (198,400 sq. km).

Ellesmere Island

/ ˈɛlzmɪə /

noun

1. a Canadian island in the Arctic Ocean: part of Nunavut; mountainous, with many glaciers. Area: 212 688 sq km (82 119 sq miles)

Example Sentences

In the late 1980s and 1990s Mech observed a pack every year at Ellesmere Island in northeastern Canada.

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Other “primates and close relatives of primates ... have never been found” on Ellesmere Island, despite being common elsewhere in the world, Beard notes.

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Specimens of the mammals, now dubbed Ignacius mckennai and Ignacius dawsonae, were originally collected in the 1970s from Ellesmere Island by pioneering paleontologist Mary Dawson.

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As exciting as the presence of these two Ignacius species on Ellesmere Island is, scientists are also interested in what isn’t found there—and why.

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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.

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