Is this Canada's Strangest Island?
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2024
- In this video we explore one of Canada's most unique and lesser known Islands to ask the question "Is this Canada's Strangest Island?".
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Apkatok Island, Kyle Marquardt, creativecommon...
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So cool!! You should do a "Strangest Islands in Canada" series!
Good idea! I could definitely do that!
@@Urban_Atlas would be really fun!
And about Canada's strangest people.
Manitoulin Island would be really cool..I love it there..worlds largest fresh water island ?@@Urban_Atlas
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Never heard of this island but would love to go see these unique birds!! This was fascinating. Thank you for the extensive research you put into your research.
Noticed it on the map but never thought about it, thanks
No problem!
Thank you for the interesting video. I am Canadian and had never heard of this island.
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You are welcome, glad you enjoyed the video!
Very cool video. I visited and landed on Akpotak Island in the summer of 2010, when working on an expedition cruise company called Cruise North. It's one of the most amazing places and walking the shore and looking up at the massive cliffs. Very very cool.
I can imagine, how epic those cliffs would look! I plan on taking a cruise up there soon!
Incredible , thank you for sharing
Of course 🙏
I went there a couple of Times before, Landed by the old buildings, LOTS of polar bears at certain parts of the summer
I've flown over this island several times making the journey from Iqaluit to somewhere on the mainland but didn't know too much about it. I've got a couple aerial photo's of it if your interested. Anyway, very informative. Thank you!
Welp. I feel like a bunch of us just learned that we coloured this island incorrectly in our grade 5 geography class.
We should've coloured it for Nunavut, but I for one coloured it for Quebec.
When I was in grade school Nunavut didn't exist. It was all NWT. Also, this island was shown as belonging to Quebec.
I think there’s even a little settlement that belongs to Nunavut in the Middle of the Hudson’s Bay (Sanikiluaq)
it’s also right beside the Naskapoka arc which is a part of Quebec but it looks very circular
I have fished in Ungava Bay many times. When the weather is too bad to fish, we take shelter in the lee of the this island.
That’s awesome!
It kind of sounds like pie island in lake Superior geographically. A big imposing mesa jutting out of the water but more pleasant with a forest on top. You should do one on Pie Island. Curious to know more about it.
This is a great video. Thanks for sharing.
Check out the Belcher Islands or Marble Islands. Both are geologically curious and historically very curious.
I may or may not be including them in future videos 😉
Nice vid, though the belcher islands are probably more interesting due to there crazy shape. Also the belcher island massacre happened there which is an obscure and fascinating part of Canadian history.
Excellent point, it’s obviously debatable which island is the “strangest”, belcher islands are very interesting, perhaps I can do a future video on them!
It would be interesting to see. But then again, there's so many remote and beautiful places in this country I'd love to visit. I'm not sure it's even humanly possible to visit everywhere.
Canada is blessed with so much, it’s impossible to see everything
What is that linear feature that runs about 13km between 60°20'26"N 68°12'18"W and 60°22'39"N 68°00'54"W?
thanks for this video
You are welcome 🙏
One Time there was 8 polar bears feeding of a dead beluga
Ooohh wow, what a sight!
Cool! I've never heard about this island or even that bird you mentioned.
Never heard of hit but I do like how you included an aerial of the Western Islands in G Bay. 😁
Yes; in an opening aerial photo 📸 of Georgian Bay, wasn't it?
The forest covered landscape in the video clip that's used as part of the INTRO, and the OUTRO 😉 shows the South Coastal region of Beautiful BC 😍, if I'm not mistaken!
I'd suggest that Arctic aerial photos 📸 and video 📹 clips would have been somewhat more appropriate, and would certainly have been available as 'stock' stills and video 🎥 footage! 👍 😉 👍
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They sure are. These are a group of Crown land islands that I have camped on several times. They are gorgeous but can be treacherous to get to.
Interesting
Thanks!
I had the pleasure of seeing the Island when I was working on a ship. Found it very interesting and not inventing to human life.
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There are about 60,000 islands off the Labrador coast.
Nice!
I thought that the title of "Weirdest island in Canada" was attributed to Montréal isle
Lol, there are many weird islands lol, just depends on what you think is the strangest 😅
It is amazing. I want to visit this island, but I don’t know how. thanks for providing this information to us about this island.
A HELICOPTER 🚁 charter flight (really, really expensive) from Kuujjuaq or possibly from a closer Inuit community/hamlet of Nunavik (the Arctic Tundra region of northern Quebec that's the traditional land of the Inuit of Quebec), would be a possibility!
...or a fixed wing 🪽 ✈️ 🛩 🛬 CHARTER AIRCRAFT (such as a DHC-2 Beaver or DHC-6 Twin Otter) and also really expensive, from Kuujjuaq or possibly from another Nunavik hamlet (where you'd also have to fly to via Air Inuit or Canadian North Airlines from Kuujjuaq ...and also expensive) would also be potentially possible!
An Arctic adventure cruise ship 🚢 stopover would in the end be the least expensive, I'd imagine! (At least one other commenter visited there in that way!)
It's certainly not impossible for the well-heeled citizen to visit Akpatok Island (after receiving the requisite permit), however the majority of visitors arive there by air AND are involved in scientific research projects!
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Georgian bay claims to have 30,000 islands and that is in a very small area. I have no idea if anyone has ever counted them or if it’s a figment of imagination
That's a pretty cool island. The first island that came to my mind was the one that's in a lake, on an island in a lake, that happens to be on an island, which is on a lake and that lake happens to be on an island... There's a 5th order recursive island in Canada, which is pretty interesting, but there's only really one thing that can be said about it, which is the number of lakes and islands it happens to be hiding in.
One very unique feature is the fact that the island is sedimentary rock and I believe most of the land around it is igneous rock.
...and thus as you know Murray, that was the reason for oil and natural gas exploration wells having been drilled on that very remote Arctic island, during the 1970s!
Ali shows a oil PUMP JACK in a photo from 'the south' when he mentions that fact.
Much more appropriately, however, would have been to show an OIL RIG (a oil well drilling derrick), since there was never any actual oil 🛢 recovered (pumped) at that location!
It was basically a 'wildcat' drilling operation, probably based upon positive looking seismic surveys having been previously done by ship over the adjacent marine areas, and perhaps even on the high and flat plateau of Akpatok Island itself.
That was during an era when and where Panarctic Oils (amongst others including Imperial Oil/ ESSO now EXXON) conducted rather extensive exploration drilling on High Arctic islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, as well as by using dredged artificial islands in shallow waters of the nearshore continental shelf (near Melville Island and in the Beaufort Sea for example). This more southerly operation within the waters of the the then Northwest Territories was probably also licensed by the federal government.
My Dad, credited as a founder of the modern environmental movement in Canada, both wrote and edited a book during the last few years of his all too short life (1920 -1978) entitled "OIL UNDER THE ICE'' detailing the abundant and extremely serious risks of both oil and natural gas exploration and production, upon the waters, as well as adjacent to the Arctic waters of Canada and beyond (US 🇺🇸 , USSR now 🇷🇺 , and Norway 🇳🇴 in particular)!
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@@markpimlott2879 Back in the 80s, I observed a model at the Canadian Centre for Inland Waters; it was to study the wave action going over an "underwater island" in the Beaufort Sea - an area that would be dredged up around and under an oil rig. I realize the term "inland waters" is a bit of a misnomer here - their main function is calibrating buoys for monitoring river flows; I was working on the hydraulic drag coefficients of buoys used to chase Russian submarines (I don't think that's classified anymore). Anyways, the Canadian Centre for Inland Waters is right beside the Skyway Bridge in Hamilton.
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That's pretty cool
The island is offten completely missing in older atlas
Fascinating! With no disrespect to the Inuit, I could imagine a horror/suspense novel or movie set on that island, where those who visit slowly succumb to cannibalism and madness ...
I’d watch that
Sometimes "problems" could be seen as "solutions", especially in our times. :)
Great for hiking... Polar bears
@@sahrazad8213 obviously you have to go with tours which include expert guides onto the island, they are usually strapped….
Interesting video. I wouldn't say it is the "strangest". In fact many of the things you mention apply to other islands - seabird colonies, Innuit occupation, resource exploration or extraction. The limestone bedrock might be more unique but not strange. Sable Island off Nova Scotia might be equally strange. Funk Island off Newfoundland would be up there too as the previous home of the extinct Giant Auk with skeletal remains and rock cairns where sailors killed and processed the birds for their oil. I think First Nations also reached the island which is quite small and far off shore.
Haute island in the bay of Fundy is one of Canada's greatest mysteries
You lost me when you suggested that the Inuit are “cannibals” without providing one single bit of evidence for the claim or saying who the “some people” are who have made this claim so we can examine it. Do you understand how settler-colonial culture invents such propaganda to demonize Indigenous peoples as “savages”, and how this has been a major conduit of oppression for hundreds of years? I was shocked that you did this, because I’ve never seen you do such a thing in any of your other videos. This statement was very disrespectful to Inuit.
As a longterm Nunavumuit (resident of Nunavut) I would unfortunately have to concur with you basic premise!
If it's to be mentioned, it most certainly requires a greater degree of context and explanation, I'm my opinion as well!
Thank you, Ali, for considering all perspectives!
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The best island in Canada is PEI
'Something like one tenth of one percent of Canadians inhabit that only completely insular province or territory of Canada!
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...however with rising sea levels, Nova Scotia is at risk of becoming an island once again!
'Might be a worthwhile and interesting topic for a future video 📹 Ali!
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tell us more about Grosse îsle
You lost me in the first statement about Canada has over 50,000 islands. Keep going. We have lakes with more then twice that in it that we highly advertise. Do more homework before posting these please
Unfortunate that just one sentence made you feel this way, it depends on how islands are measured, many resources don’t include islands under a specific size, while others include islands that are as small as 0.5 km2. So there is no correct answer, that’s why I said over 50k to keep it open ended. Wishing you the best 🙏
'A bit harsh...HOWEVER we do have several million freshwater bodies in Canada and (yes) millions of islands as well! 🏝 🏕 🏝
Surprisingly, in terms of marine 🌊 islands, some geographers rate Sweden 🇸🇪 as having the most on the planet, all in the Baltic Sea, of course.
As I recall, even their capital city of Stockholm is built upon a small archipelago!
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The are 1 million lakes in quebec alone. In Ontario 900 000. So there definitely more than 50000. That being said, maybe only islands of a certain size are being counted.
Great find, could be stinky from all the bird poop.
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Canada has thousands of remote uninhabited islands.
I am not sure why you picked this one. Most unusual feature seems to be that it is surrounded by steep cliffs. But why does that make it "strange"?
It’s potential history, geology, it’s ancient Dorset culture all
Player a factor for me.
@@Urban_AtlasI feel like you just wanted an excuse to play up the shoddy “cannibal” savages angle for clicks.
@@LibertyCollageshould have probably included “cannibal” in the thumbnail then, wouldn’t you agree?
3:40 "remote geography and isolated location". Kind of redundant.
You are right, I should have said “unique geography and isolated location”.
@ lol, thank you man, appreciate you brother 🙏
@@WildMan576 Nope, I gave his reply a "like" as soon as he posted it. I gave some feedback, he received it graciously. End of transaction.
You think that's the weirdest island in Canada? You've never been to Vancouver Island. Now there's a weird place.
Everyone has a different definition of weird
Bahahaha well played. Used to live in Victoria. Too weird for my taste to raise my kids there.
'VAN ISLE is a wonder-filled and fantastical island 🏝 (which even has some non-native Palm 🌴 trees growing in and around the most temperate city in Canada 🇨🇦 - namely Victoria!
However that LARGEST ISLAND OFF THE WESTERN COAST OF THE AMERICAS (North, South and Central) is not at all a weird place for me! (Circa 1970s to the 2000s for me!)
However... to each, THEIR own!
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I’d suggest Prince Edward Island; only the strangest act of lethargic political ineptitude explains why it’s also a Canadian province.
I edge to your videos
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Take that as a compliment…..
'Say what? 😉
This island seems far too remote for polar bears to swim out to it. So there's a population of polar bears who thrive there, though there were Inuit who used to hunt there? Interesting. Gonna have to look into that.
Unfortunately I'd have to say ... as a Wildlife Biologist who worked for the Nunavut Wildlife Service (later the Wildlife Management Division of the NU Department of Environment) for about a dozen years earlier this century, that most of 'THE FACTS' THAT YOU MENTION about Polar 🐻❄ Bears, and Akpatok Island ARE INCORRECT.
I'll post ANOTHER primary COMMENT about PBs 🐻❄ and Akpatok Island besides this REPLY.
However, in the interim:
- the scientific name of the Polar Bear 🐻❄️ is Ursus maritimus - the SEA BEAR - somewhat reflecting their swimming prowess!
- PBs 🐻❄ are incredibly adept and very impressively capable swimmers, SO even a swim in open water that far off the mainland certainly wouldn't be impossible!
- HOWEVER, that's not how most of the sizeable population of summering PBs 🐻❄ arrive on Akpatok Island each late spring and early summer!
- PBs 🐻❄ move from the remnants of the up to two metre thick annual sea 🌊 ice 🧊, where they hunt seals as late as possible, and then usually swim the remaining distance onto Akpatok Island!
- Ungava Bay is fully ice covered each winter, so even as the spring break-up occurs, some of the ice floes 🧊 can comprise first hundreds of square kilometres, and later tens of km/sq!
- PBs 🐻❄ are seal 🦭 hunting specialists BUT they hunt them almost exclusively from the surface of the sea ice 🧊 either at their breathing holes 🦭 (Aglus) and/or they stalk and ambush seals 🦭 sunning and/or sleeping 😴 on the surface of shorefast ice 🦭 🧊 and/or on large free-floating ice 🧊 🦭 floes!
Please see another COMMENT that I'll post shortly about the very interesting way of life of summering PBs 🐻❄ on Akpatok Island.
With an ever-lengthening 🌊 ice-free period during which PBs are LARGELY FASTING, some similar seabird hunting behaviours that I'll mention, have also been noted elsewhere in Nunavut and even perhaps beyond in the north polar Arctic.
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@markpimlott2879 I didn't claim 'facts'. But, yes, I can see I was mistaken. I thought 70 km was far, but polar bears routinely swim over a hundred . And one bear was recorded at 426km. Amazing.