Ellesmere Island
Americannoun
noun
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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.
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
But the breakup of these ice shelves is really quite inevitable at this point; along the coast of northern Ellesmere Island, we’re seeing open water and warmer temperatures almost consistently every summer.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2020
Feast names celebrated last August two stalwart crusaders weather station Buchanan Bay desolate Ellesmere Island seventy nine latitude less seven hundred miles North Pole.
From Dawn of a New Day by Shoghi Effendi
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