Being Canadian is weird in the sense that our country is so vast that parts of the nation can seem exotic and distant. It's hard to belive that these islands are part of my home country. Id really like to go to the Canadian arctic one day.
Well said! I feel the same way, as I research these islands they feel so different and unique to me, crazy to think it’s all part of just one massive country. Like how different is southern Ontario versus the extreme North of Ellesmere Island or Devon island. Crazy.
@@User31129 Canada is about 2% larger than the US, but so much of it's territory is wilderness and tundra. So in a way, the US is actually quite a bit larger than Canada at least as far as habitable land goes.
Alaskan here, I love going on hikes into the uncharted wilderness of both our beautiful lands. Nothing beats an adventure in the great outdoors, and your beautiful country has incredible wonders to explore. As an Alaskan, I think exploration is something I am blessed with due to all the natural beauty around me, and I wish more people could spend time in nature, I think spending time outside is healthy for ones well being. Anywho, I send much love to my Canadian neighbors to the south. Have a wonderful day 🙂
Correction: Alert is not a community. It is a military base. The only community in Ellesmere Island is Grise Fiord, in the southern coast of Ellesmere. There are no Inuit in Alert. I worked in the Baffin region for a few years. Grise Fiord is the northernmost community in Canada.
@@woodbarber6679 I've been there multiple times myself. It may have some characteristics of a community but in the literal sense it most certainly is not a community not even close.
That's not true back in the 80's the goverment re-located aboriginal tribes into the northern islands... we made the queen visit up north as our claim tonthe islands
@@Cuz.im.batman These islands were Cornwallis and Ellesmere. But it was not Alert. It was Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay. The Inuit there were relocated from Nunavik in Québec. This has nothing to do with Alert. I lived and worked in the region for years. Inuktitut tukisijunga.
I’d heard about Alert. Just look at the satellite view (no street view available😂), and one sees why a tour there deserves a medal. Everyone has heard of Antarctica and thus understands why there is a “Wintering Over” award (US).
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!!! I have been fascinated by these islands all my life. What fascinated me from the very first was that there was a huge area of Canada, as big as a major European country, that wasn't even known to the outside world until the 20th century! If you look at maps before that, there's just a blank space, and usually the words "unexplored" or "unknown." It might just as well have been "Here there be dragons." Every fact you mention in this video has long been known to me, but I'm absolutely delighted to see them on UA-cam, and you are doing marvelous work bringing this knowledge to a broader public. Canadians are, for the most part, unaware of the fabulous wonders that exist in the remotest parts of our country. My heart is split with two conflicting emotions. On the one hand, I want everyone to know that these fabulous places exist, and want us to explore them further..... but on the other hand, by doing so, we will lose the magical feeling that there is an unknown place where "here there be dragons." As the comment before me notes, this is a fabulous gift for Thanksgiving. I woke up to see all sorts of worrying news and depressing things. This made me happy. We should all give thanks that our country has such hidden wonders. We are not an ordinary country.
What an amazing comment! Thank you for sharing this, I love reading comments from people who think similar to me 😅. Our country is special, there are so many places barely spoken about and there so much about this country we do not know. Part of it is sad and we may never know the beauty that is on some of these obscure places, but also it may be a good thing as these places will remain hidden and undisturbed by anthropogenic evil. Happy Thanksgiving! And thank you once again for your comment, it made my day. I’m happy to hear that my videos are making a positive impact on people! This is what keeps me going!
As a geography nerd I knew about the islands, but love that I discovered more. Absolutely I’d love to visit them. I’ve even looked at getting a job at Alert and other places. I’ve dreamt of taking a hike on Ellesmere Island. Please keep making more videos. I’ve loved each one so far. These are the kind of videos I’ve thought myself of creating.
Thank you for your kind words! I appreciate it! I myself have dreamt of visiting and exploring Ellesmere and Baffin Island! I hope we both get a chance to live our dreams! More interesting content on the way brother 🙏
@@Urban_Atlas anyone who has paid any attention in school should know Ellesmere, Banks and Baffin, but then rest are essentially unknown, and certainly the names of the groupings of islands. In Canada There's a PR stunt put on where Norad tracks Santa Claus on Christmas, reports of his take off from the North Pole start from Alert on Ellesmere.
You’ve inspired me to sit down and learn the names of these islands (well, the larger ones, at least). As a proud Canadian, and a trivia nerd, I like to think I know lots about our history and geography, but I’m sadly lacking in knowledge about our amazing northern archipelago. Thanks for the nudge.
It’s great to see a decent video of the islands of Inuit Nunangat (Inuit owned lands), with even a comment from our very own Super Shamuu! Alert has the most northern Tim Hortons (lol), and if you’re doing more videos, it would be nice to hear a bit more on historical Inuit settlements over the centuries we’ve lived here. Thoroughly enjoyed the video!
I have read many books on Polar explorers and watched many UA-cam videos on the same topic. I have found very little information on these islands; your video is an excellent source. Really good job and thanks for digging up this interesting material!
I can offer a little bit of help with the pronunciation of Iqaluit and Ausuittuq. Iqaluit - Ee-qa-loo-eet (Q pronounced gutturally like how Arabic uses Q's) Ausuittuq - Ow-soo-eet-tuuq Thanks for bringing some attention to these oft forgotten islands!
Hey Urban Atlas… you finally popped up on this geography nerd’s algorithm. I am so glad I found you and this topic is superb. Since I was a jid, I stared at the furthest locations in maps and you hit one of my favorites. Would love to see more on Baffin and the I nuit who hunt and gather there. This is a bucket list teip. Also must see the boreal forest just below the arctic tundra. Thanks si much, friend. I really enjoyed your video.💙
Welcome to the channel brother! Love having fellow geography nerds here 😀. I have more videos on a lot of the topics you just mentioned, and more on the way. I used to the same as a kid and I still do it, look at atlases for hours thinking about what’s going on these locations. Who lives there, how do they survive? What are the cities like? ❤️
Great and informative piece on virtually untouched islands. I have never seen a video primarily devoted to Axel-H which is as remote as you can get, I appreciate what you are going. You have made this geography nerd very happy..Future suggestion; there is a large island in James Bay, name escapes me, I am curious about that island, a future piece on that.?
Hey! Thanks for your lovely comment and feedback, I’m glad you are enjoying my content 😌. appreciate you taking time out to leave a comment! Yes you may be referring to akimiski island, it’s a unique island, I will be including a piece on it soon!
Good job. I remember the crashed DC3 near the abandoned Isachsen Weather Station on Ellef Ringnes Island. The Ringnes brothers Ellef and Amaud were Norwegian brewers that helped sponsor Sverdrup's expecition in 1898, so they got both their names on islands. The company still exists today. The only pic that is a bit weird is the photo of Copper Inuit from around Coronation Gulf way south of these islands. A photo of North Baffin Inuit would have been more appropriate in this case.
I love learning about these islands. Especially the uninhabited ones, or the ones with literally only 1-2 settlements. Many of them are larger than European countries, and only have like, two towns!!
Not only that the sun is all messed up in the summer there literally constant light never gets dark like other parts of canada completely reverses in the winter to 8 hours of light
I didn't so much forget about these islands, I literally learned from this video what their names were. Great work. This is essentially where we need to look to find Big Foot.
Yeah this was great I really enjoyed this video I subscribed to your channel I just happened upon it today and I spent a lot of time in Canada as a youth, but never really paid too much attention as to the far north. I like the way you presented your video, it was really informative. I am now very happy to hear that it is a series that you're going to be producing, thank you for that. Good stuff
@@Urban_Atlas Coincidentally, speaking of Canadian islands, lol, my family owned a small island (#B-244) about 14 miles off the mainland in Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, in Ontario. My grandfather bought it in 1952 for $225. So cheap! It was a wonderful place to grow up in and enjoy until my adult years. It was located in the area known as ‘30,000 Islands’ near Perry Sound, Ontario. San Souci was the name of another island close to ours that can be pulled up on Google Earth for reference. Also, which may be of interest to you, there was a nearby island named Copperhead, that had a very strange vibe to it every time I explored it, with the skeleton of a wooden frame hotel that had burnt down years ago under very unusual circumstances. Apparently, there have always been questions about the origins of those fires but who knows? All I know is it was quite the social ‘place to be’ back in the day, perhaps the ‘20s or ‘30s… but it’s probably way too small of an island to be included in any of your videos, but maybe in a compilation video? I don’t know, just a random suggestion to you, that perhaps you ought to think about looking into that area as a topic of interest.
Interesting tidbit. Axel-H. island was most likely visited by the Greenland Norse at some point. For iron rivits have been found (it wasn't uncommon for the ships to loose a few when pulled out of the water onto a beach). Nice video. Thanks,
Yea such an interesting area. Norse colonies weren’t too far away from Axel H. Island therefore it makes sense they may have landed on the island at one time during exploration of the area.
This is a wonderful video as a starter. It would be highly interesting to get many more details! What kind of earth and rocks do you find on the islands, more details about the animals and vegetation, why are there salt peaks, how and why did they appear; are there whales, orcas, dolphins or others (what kind?) in the waters around; are there diamonds, gold, other minerals in the ground; are there springs of fresh water somewhere on the islands for researchers to drink? The video is really fantastic and raises thousands of questions. Thank you very much and persevere: you're doing a very good job.
I live in northern Alberta weather's about to change for the worst for six months. I look forward to July, I take the entire month off and travel southern BC
I have been obsessed with the Canadian Arctic Archipelago ever since I was a kid, and I still find them fascinating simply due to how many islands there are up there in the Great North, how big they are, and how uninhabited they are. In particular, the most interesting ones IMO are the islands with huge land area and zero inhabitants like Axel Heiberg Island and the largest uninhabited island in the world, Devon Island.
I've always wanted to spend a summer in the high arctic. My father worked on the Dew line and I have relatives in places like Yellowknife, the photos my dad had of his one stop in CFS Alert sold me on the idea. I'd like to go at the warmer part of the year of course, and stay for a month or two in relative seclusion ...maybe at or near that McGill research center. Just for a period of Blissful peace.
Sorry for the earlier post I spent a month on Ellef Ringnes in the 80's repairing equipment.The sun makes a halo in the sky it was about 2 P.M. all the time Wheñ the fox disappear you start watching for polar bear's Don't go walking around, bears are around Dumbbell Dome seems familiar. You loose about 5-10 minutes per day as the sun makes its way to the horizon Really glad not to be there in Winter
One thing I think is fascinating… most places on the globe have experienced human activity of significant levels for thousands of years. But I’d imagine some of these remote Canadian arctic islands have had very limited human activity.
Very little, there is some archeological evidence of humans, but it’s very limited. Meaning these islands are among the last relatively untouched areas on earth.
@@Urban_AtlasAkpatok Island in Ungava Bay has spectacular cliffs rising directly from the seashore. During the summer it's populated by tens of thousands of a range of species of nesting seabirds. Several are pelagic (open ocean) species, which only come to land to nest and fledge their young! I could provide you Ali, with a photograph or two of that island, as well as several more of the species that nest there! With chilly cheers and warm regards! 🐻❄ 🐻 🐻❄ 🐻 🐻❄ 🐻 🐻❄
I thank the algorithm, just found this channel. So as an Alaskan, the wonder's of the great outdoors are part of my DNA. I love my Canadian neighbors to my south(their government not so much, but most governments suck, lol, but I digress) I just wanted to say thank you for this awesome video 🙂😊 Liked and Subscribed
Thank you! I have personally been fascinated with Alaska for many years. I hope and plan to visit the great state of Alaska some day soon. Thank you for tuning into the channel. ☺️
Your research is excellent, as are the visuals and your narration. The only thing I would add concerns the ancient forest on Axel Heiberg Island. The trees reached up to 35 m (115 ft) in height, and some may have grown for 500 to 1,000 years. During the Eocene epoch, the polar climate was warm, but the winters were still continuously dark for three months. These 40+ million year old trees are mummified, rather than fossilized, so it's still possible to burn their wood (but only an ignorant person would do so).
Great point, I could have gone more in-depth with the ancient flora of the island, as it’s climate different than it is now. Thanks for this! I appreciate it!
Don't mean to quibble unduly however you mention at about 02:22 that the Sverdrup Islands are located "...at the WESTERN end of the Queen Elizabeth Islands". I'm sure that you actually intended to say something to the effect that 'the Sverdrup Islands comprise the EASTERN sector of the QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS'! I'm one of the relatively rare folks who has ACTUALLY VISITED THE QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; namely CORNWALLIS ISLAND DURING JUNE OF 1966! The second most northerly community in Canada is located there. It was known as Resolute Bay, Northwest Territories when I was there. Since 1999 it has been officially known as Resolute, Nunavut, although the airport is still officially ''Resolute Bay Airport''! ✈️ 🛩 🛬 🔥 'More in another post also about the dozen years that I lived full-time north of the Arctic Circle in the Qikiqtaaluk region (the High Arctic and Baffin region) of Nunavut) during the 21st century! 🧊 ❄️ 🧊 ❄️ 🏔 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 🏔 ❄️ 🧊 ❄️ 🧊
The first inhabitants of these islands, the ones that were ever inhabited in the first place (some likely never were) were probably Athabaskan, related to today’s Tlicho and Gwich’in.
I have always been good with world geography but yet just assumed that Greenland was closer to Europe than to Canada but I never ever could have fathomed you could litrally take a insanely short canoe ride from the entire Eastern coastline of Ellsmere Island to Greenland... UNBELIEVABLE...
I too am fascinated by the far-northern islands in Canada. I would not want to visit those places, since my transportation to and from those places, anything I could do, use, or stay in while I was there would damage it. The territory should be left alone - except for First Nations people who go there from time to time, and research scientists.
I really like that you talked so good details about Canada, I love this country so much ❤🇨🇦 Thank you! I didnt know these islands are forgotten, mostly I know Alert, and the other 2 not much the thing is Canada owns Alert therefore they made it the mitarty base instead of a town because it's to cold. Have a good day! Need a sub? Subbed! Extra info: Alert is the place when Canadians get ready for the war, and prepare to fight against other countries to be able to have access the sea so they could get close. Future military bases will also be placed at Alert!
Interesting, as an American that left school before Northwest Territory was officially split, the only thing I remember about the Islands up there was Franklin's getting the Erebus and Terror, and probably the only reason I remember that was they had found some bodies and why not video tape it and make it into an educational tv show..anyways probably not what to show 5-6th graders.
Check out the Canadian Polar Continental Shelf Program. They have operated in these islands for many years and are the real experts of the high Arctic!
Being Canadian is weird in the sense that our country is so vast that parts of the nation can seem exotic and distant. It's hard to belive that these islands are part of my home country. Id really like to go to the Canadian arctic one day.
Well said! I feel the same way, as I research these islands they feel so different and unique to me, crazy to think it’s all part of just one massive country. Like how different is southern Ontario versus the extreme North of Ellesmere Island or Devon island. Crazy.
Sort of like I guess as an American from the North the weird feeling that tropical Hawaii and Puerto Rico are under US jurisdiction.
@@User31129 Canada is about 2% larger than the US, but so much of it's territory is wilderness and tundra. So in a way, the US is actually quite a bit larger than Canada at least as far as habitable land goes.
Alaskan here, I love going on hikes into the uncharted wilderness of both our beautiful lands. Nothing beats an adventure in the great outdoors, and your beautiful country has incredible wonders to explore. As an Alaskan, I think exploration is something I am blessed with due to all the natural beauty around me, and I wish more people could spend time in nature, I think spending time outside is healthy for ones well being. Anywho, I send much love to my Canadian neighbors to the south. Have a wonderful day 🙂
Correction: Alert is not a community. It is a military base. The only community in Ellesmere Island is Grise Fiord, in the southern coast of Ellesmere. There are no Inuit in Alert. I worked in the Baffin region for a few years. Grise Fiord is the northernmost community in Canada.
You are right! I misspoke Alert isn’t a community but a military base and research station 🙏
Having spent many months and multiple trips to ALERT, I would call it a community. A transient community but still a community.
@@woodbarber6679 I've been there multiple times myself. It may have some characteristics of a community but in the literal sense it most certainly is not a community not even close.
That's not true back in the 80's the goverment re-located aboriginal tribes into the northern islands... we made the queen visit up north as our claim tonthe islands
@@Cuz.im.batman These islands were Cornwallis and Ellesmere. But it was not Alert. It was Grise Fiord and Resolute Bay. The Inuit there were relocated from Nunavik in Québec. This has nothing to do with Alert. I lived and worked in the region for years. Inuktitut tukisijunga.
If you get posted to the Alert base in the Canadian Military it's considered a tour and you get a medal. They call it, "The Drinking Medal".
😂😂
I’d heard about Alert. Just look at the satellite view (no street view available😂), and one sees why a tour there deserves a medal. Everyone has heard of Antarctica and thus understands why there is a “Wintering Over” award (US).
T-shirts at the Alert gift shop...Alert Airlines - We Only fly South....Fozen Chosen
That's our people! 😂 woot!
“Canadian Military” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 K
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou!!! I have been fascinated by these islands all my life. What fascinated me from the very first was that there was a huge area of Canada, as big as a major European country, that wasn't even known to the outside world until the 20th century! If you look at maps before that, there's just a blank space, and usually the words "unexplored" or "unknown." It might just as well have been "Here there be dragons."
Every fact you mention in this video has long been known to me, but I'm absolutely delighted to see them on UA-cam, and you are doing marvelous work bringing this knowledge to a broader public. Canadians are, for the most part, unaware of the fabulous wonders that exist in the remotest parts of our country. My heart is split with two conflicting emotions. On the one hand, I want everyone to know that these fabulous places exist, and want us to explore them further..... but on the other hand, by doing so, we will lose the magical feeling that there is an unknown place where "here there be dragons."
As the comment before me notes, this is a fabulous gift for Thanksgiving. I woke up to see all sorts of worrying news and depressing things. This made me happy. We should all give thanks that our country has such hidden wonders. We are not an ordinary country.
What an amazing comment! Thank you for sharing this, I love reading comments from people who think similar to me 😅. Our country is special, there are so many places barely spoken about and there so much about this country we do not know. Part of it is sad and we may never know the beauty that is on some of these obscure places, but also it may be a good thing as these places will remain hidden and undisturbed by anthropogenic evil. Happy Thanksgiving! And thank you once again for your comment, it made my day. I’m happy to hear that my videos are making a positive impact on people! This is what keeps me going!
@@Urban_Atlas Glad you liked it. I've become of solid fan of your site.
@@philpaine3068 honestly this is EXACTLY how I feel, I love this comment
I mean, we may lose dragons, but we could still theoretically have Bigfoot and Wendigo and Selkie. 🤷♀️
@@Hollyucinogen It's Sasquatch, not Bigfoot in Canada. Selkie is Scottish, but of course he came over to us with all the Scots.
As a geography nerd I knew about the islands, but love that I discovered more. Absolutely I’d love to visit them. I’ve even looked at getting a job at Alert and other places. I’ve dreamt of taking a hike on Ellesmere Island. Please keep making more videos. I’ve loved each one so far. These are the kind of videos I’ve thought myself of creating.
Thank you for your kind words! I appreciate it! I myself have dreamt of visiting and exploring Ellesmere and Baffin Island! I hope we both get a chance to live our dreams! More interesting content on the way brother 🙏
If you get the chance, take it!
I've been to Alert and Eureka for work, and I'll tell you there's nothing like the Arctic landscapes and scenery!
When you are in Alert, make sure to drop in on the Angolese Embassy 😏
Even Ellesmere is pretty obscure. I’m Canadian and if I go ask friends and coworkers if they know of Ellesmere Island 95% of them are gonna say no
Yea, I agree to that, I think 99% won’t have even heard of the sverdrup islands 😅
@@Urban_Atlas anyone who has paid any attention in school should know Ellesmere, Banks and Baffin, but then rest are essentially unknown, and certainly the names of the groupings of islands. In Canada There's a PR stunt put on where Norad tracks Santa Claus on Christmas, reports of his take off from the North Pole start from Alert on Ellesmere.
You’ve inspired me to sit down and learn the names of these islands (well, the larger ones, at least). As a proud Canadian, and a trivia nerd, I like to think I know lots about our history and geography, but I’m sadly lacking in knowledge about our amazing northern archipelago. Thanks for the nudge.
Glad you enjoyed the video! More interesting content on the way!
It’s great to see a decent video of the islands of Inuit Nunangat (Inuit owned lands), with even a comment from our very own Super Shamuu!
Alert has the most northern Tim Hortons (lol), and if you’re doing more videos, it would be nice to hear a bit more on historical Inuit settlements over the centuries we’ve lived here.
Thoroughly enjoyed the video!
Thank you 🙏! Appreciate you.
I bet they only hire people named E. Lee Gal
I have read many books on Polar explorers and watched many UA-cam videos on the same topic. I have found very little information on these islands; your video is an excellent source. Really good job and thanks for digging up this interesting material!
You are right, it’s very hard to find info on these islands! Thanks for watching , much appreciated
Really? One of the most famous stories of the Terror and Erebus is in this region.
I can offer a little bit of help with the pronunciation of Iqaluit and Ausuittuq.
Iqaluit - Ee-qa-loo-eet (Q pronounced gutturally like how Arabic uses Q's)
Ausuittuq - Ow-soo-eet-tuuq
Thanks for bringing some attention to these oft forgotten islands!
Beautiful! Thank you for this! I always struggle with the pronunciations of the Inuktitut words. Appreciate this 🙏🫡.
Super interesting! Are you a member of these committees?
Hey Urban Atlas… you finally popped up on this geography nerd’s algorithm. I am so glad I found you and this topic is superb. Since I was a jid, I stared at the furthest locations in maps and you hit one of my favorites. Would love to see more on Baffin and the I nuit who hunt and gather there. This is a bucket list teip. Also must see the boreal forest just below the arctic tundra. Thanks si much, friend. I really enjoyed your video.💙
Welcome to the channel brother! Love having fellow geography nerds here 😀. I have more videos on a lot of the topics you just mentioned, and more on the way. I used to the same as a kid and I still do it, look at atlases for hours thinking about what’s going on these locations. Who lives there, how do they survive? What are the cities like? ❤️
Great and informative piece on virtually untouched islands. I have never seen a video primarily devoted to Axel-H which is as remote as you can get, I appreciate what you are going. You have made this geography nerd very happy..Future suggestion; there is a large island in James Bay, name escapes me, I am curious about that island, a future piece on that.?
Hey! Thanks for your lovely comment and feedback, I’m glad you are enjoying my content 😌. appreciate you taking time out to leave a comment! Yes you may be referring to akimiski island, it’s a unique island, I will be including a piece on it soon!
Imagine the slowly unfolding terror of being a member of the Frasier expedition..
Must have been frightening
Good job. I remember the crashed DC3 near the abandoned Isachsen Weather Station on Ellef Ringnes Island. The Ringnes brothers Ellef and Amaud were Norwegian brewers that helped sponsor Sverdrup's expecition in 1898, so they got both their names on islands. The company still exists today. The only pic that is a bit weird is the photo of Copper Inuit from around Coronation Gulf way south of these islands. A photo of North Baffin Inuit would have been more appropriate in this case.
I love learning about these islands. Especially the uninhabited ones, or the ones with literally only 1-2 settlements. Many of them are larger than European countries, and only have like, two towns!!
That’s right these islands are massive and pretty much empty!
Zenith
Take a look for prince Patrick Island, look for a place called mould bay , very interesting , I was there this summer
Not only that the sun is all messed up in the summer there literally constant light never gets dark like other parts of canada completely reverses in the winter to 8 hours of light
I didn't so much forget about these islands, I literally learned from this video what their names were. Great work. This is essentially where we need to look to find Big Foot.
Yeah this was great I really enjoyed this video I subscribed to your channel I just happened upon it today and I spent a lot of time in Canada as a youth, but never really paid too much attention as to the far north. I like the way you presented your video, it was really informative. I am now very happy to hear that it is a series that you're going to be producing, thank you for that.
Good stuff
Hey! Thank you so much for the kind words! I appreciate it. Happy to have you on board 🙏
@@Urban_Atlas Coincidentally, speaking of Canadian islands, lol, my family owned a small island (#B-244) about 14 miles off the mainland in Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, in Ontario. My grandfather bought it in 1952 for $225. So cheap! It was a wonderful place to grow up in and enjoy until my adult years. It was located in the area known as ‘30,000 Islands’ near Perry Sound, Ontario. San Souci was the name of another island close to ours that can be pulled up on Google Earth for reference. Also, which may be of interest to you, there was a nearby island named Copperhead, that had a very strange vibe to it every time I explored it, with the skeleton of a wooden frame hotel that had burnt down years ago under very unusual circumstances. Apparently, there have always been questions about the origins of those fires but who knows? All I know is it was quite the social ‘place to be’ back in the day, perhaps the ‘20s or ‘30s… but it’s probably way too small of an island to be included in any of your videos, but maybe in a compilation video? I don’t know, just a random suggestion to you, that perhaps you ought to think about looking into that area as a topic of interest.
Interesting tidbit. Axel-H. island was most likely visited by the Greenland Norse at some point. For iron rivits have been found (it wasn't uncommon for the ships to loose a few when pulled out of the water onto a beach). Nice video. Thanks,
Yea such an interesting area. Norse colonies weren’t too far away from Axel H. Island therefore it makes sense they may have landed on the island at one time during exploration of the area.
This is a wonderful video as a starter. It would be highly interesting to get many more details! What kind of earth and rocks do you find on the islands, more details about the animals and vegetation, why are there salt peaks, how and why did they appear; are there whales, orcas, dolphins or others (what kind?) in the waters around; are there diamonds, gold, other minerals in the ground; are there springs of fresh water somewhere on the islands for researchers to drink? The video is really fantastic and raises thousands of questions. Thank you very much and persevere: you're doing a very good job.
Thank you so much for this vid. I've always been fascinated by the high arctic islands so it's great to have a good look a them.
Of course! Glad you enjoyed the video!
I live in northern Alberta weather's about to change for the worst for six months. I look forward to July, I take the entire month off and travel southern BC
That was amazing! I would definitely like to hear more and I would love to visit the area.
I’ll try to do a whole series on lesser known islands in Canada!
I have been obsessed with the Canadian Arctic Archipelago ever since I was a kid, and I still find them fascinating simply due to how many islands there are up there in the Great North, how big they are, and how uninhabited they are. In particular, the most interesting ones IMO are the islands with huge land area and zero inhabitants like Axel Heiberg Island and the largest uninhabited island in the world, Devon Island.
Axel Heiberg and Devon Island are definitely some of the most fascinating islands in the world! I have a video on both!
I've always wanted to spend a summer in the high arctic. My father worked on the Dew line and I have relatives in places like Yellowknife, the photos my dad had of his one stop in CFS Alert sold me on the idea. I'd like to go at the warmer part of the year of course, and stay for a month or two in relative seclusion ...maybe at or near that McGill research center. Just for a period of Blissful peace.
I want to go as well, just for a period of peace,❤️
Sorry for the earlier post
I spent a month on Ellef Ringnes in the 80's repairing equipment.The sun makes a halo in the sky it was about 2 P.M. all the time
Wheñ the fox disappear you start watching for polar bear's
Don't go walking around, bears are around
Dumbbell Dome seems familiar.
You loose about 5-10 minutes per day as the sun makes its way to the horizon
Really glad not to be there in Winter
Very interesting. I have never studied the northern geography of Canada. So I am happy to have learned something about it.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
One thing I think is fascinating… most places on the globe have experienced human activity of significant levels for thousands of years. But I’d imagine some of these remote Canadian arctic islands have had very limited human activity.
Very little, there is some archeological evidence of humans, but it’s very limited. Meaning these islands are among the last relatively untouched areas on earth.
Most enjoyable when you find novel features. Shipwrecks, geo thermal hot springs, odd micro climates, etc.
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Great stuff, I'd love to visit those islands. Anything like fossils, ruins, rare plants/animals would be fascinating.
Very interesting, thanks for the work you done on the subject
You are very welcome 🙏
As a 43 year old Canadian..I was aware of these islands and their geography. But that is about it.
Glad I could help you learn more.
Akpatok Island in Ungava Bay has to be one of the coolest looking islands up there.
Def has the coolest geography and topography! Would be worth researching more to make a video on!
@@Urban_AtlasAkpatok Island in Ungava Bay has spectacular cliffs rising directly from the seashore. During the summer it's populated by tens of thousands of a range of species of nesting seabirds. Several are pelagic (open ocean) species, which only come to land to nest and fledge their young!
I could provide you Ali, with a photograph or two of that island, as well as several more of the species that nest there!
With chilly cheers and warm regards!
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Working on a video of the island!!
Thanks for covering a little-known area of the Earth. Very interesting.
Of course! More on the way.
I would LOVE to learn more about these islands and the others nearby. Extremely interesting.
Stay tuned to the channel!
I thank the algorithm, just found this channel. So as an Alaskan, the wonder's of the great outdoors are part of my DNA. I love my Canadian neighbors to my south(their government not so much, but most governments suck, lol, but I digress) I just wanted to say thank you for this awesome video 🙂😊
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Thank you! I have personally been fascinated with Alaska for many years. I hope and plan to visit the great state of Alaska some day soon. Thank you for tuning into the channel. ☺️
Devon Island aka: Mars.
Interesting video! I wouldn't mind seeing a separate video on Isachsen - the formerly-inhabited weather station on Ellef Ringnes Island.
Excellent idea!
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Did not know about these islands. Thank you. Very interesting
Any time! 🙏
Awesome video. Great info. Definitely subscribed for more Canadian content👍
Thank you so much! 🙏🙏
legend says he responds to every comment. i salute you sir🫡
I try bro
Cool video! Would love to learn more and visit one day.
Thank you!
Your research is excellent, as are the visuals and your narration. The only thing I would add concerns the ancient forest on Axel Heiberg Island. The trees reached up to 35 m (115 ft) in height, and some may have grown for 500 to 1,000 years. During the Eocene epoch, the polar climate was warm, but the winters were still continuously dark for three months. These 40+ million year old trees are mummified, rather than fossilized, so it's still possible to burn their wood (but only an ignorant person would do so).
Great point, I could have gone more in-depth with the ancient flora of the island, as it’s climate different than it is now. Thanks for this! I appreciate it!
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Urban :D Great video as per usual
Thank you 🙏! Happy Thanksgiving!
A lot of these islands had oil exploration on them .
Very interesting content and well put together! You earned a new subscriber!!!
Thanks, appreciate that! Welcome aboard!
I knew of the political history of the Sverdrup's and about the fossil forest on Axel Heiberg. Thank you for this visual presentation.
Don't mean to quibble unduly however you mention at about 02:22 that the Sverdrup Islands are located "...at the WESTERN end of the Queen Elizabeth Islands".
I'm sure that you actually intended to say something to the effect that 'the Sverdrup Islands comprise the EASTERN sector of the QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS'!
I'm one of the relatively rare folks who has ACTUALLY VISITED THE QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; namely CORNWALLIS ISLAND DURING JUNE OF 1966!
The second most northerly community in Canada is located there. It was known as Resolute Bay, Northwest Territories when I was there. Since 1999 it has been officially known as Resolute, Nunavut, although the airport is still officially ''Resolute Bay Airport''! ✈️ 🛩 🛬 🔥
'More in another post also about the dozen years that I lived full-time north of the Arctic Circle in the Qikiqtaaluk region (the High Arctic and Baffin region) of Nunavut) during the 21st century!
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Thanks for exploring Canada!
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Yes, I would like to visit these islands.
Excellent presentation, very interesting subject.
Thank you 🙏
The Inuit people who lived on the islands were the first to claim and map them, hope this helps!
These islands are fascinating. Please. Keep going!🎉
Thanks, glad you enjoyed! More videos like this on the way.
I enjoyed this video. I’ve subscribed. Thanks 😎
Awesome! Thank you 😊
Informative and interesting
Thank you 🙏
Need more!
On the way!
These island are so mysterious to me that I had never even heard about them until right meow!!
00:17 Thank you for immediately ignoring New Foundland hahaha
Just realized I didn’t mention Newfoundland 😳. Apologies for that!
@@Urban_Atlas No it's actually really hilarious!
It’s Oldfoundland now
Maybe One day I will travel to the Arctic Region .. Would be Awesome to do an entire Tour of All the Arctic Islands .. Put that on a to-Do List
I dont want to vist irl just virtually through your next video 🥶
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I have been to Axel Heiberg Island. Had the opportunity to visit an ancient campsite from people that predated even the Inuit.
😮😮😮Thts amazing!
thank you, we did no know anything about this part of Canada
You are welcome 🙏
The first inhabitants of these islands, the ones that were ever inhabited in the first place (some likely never were) were probably Athabaskan, related to today’s Tlicho and Gwich’in.
I have always been good with world geography but yet just assumed that Greenland was closer to Europe than to Canada but I never ever could have fathomed you could litrally take a insanely short canoe ride from the entire Eastern coastline of Ellsmere Island to Greenland... UNBELIEVABLE...
Same here, especially because it’s part of Denmark! But geologically it’s part of the North American continent.
I'm Canadian and I can't even name all of our provinces and territories lol. You're all good.
Lol thanks!!
Great video!
Thanks man!
the clicking sound effect is mixed in such a way that its way louder than your voice (at least on phone speakers)
Yea that’s my mistake I think increased their volume (by mistake) in the editing process
interesting, Would like more
More on the way soon!
I liked the content.
Thank you 🙏
Wonderful
Thank you!
I was fortunate to have spent parts of 6 summers on Devon Island with visis to many of the other Queen Elizabeth Islands.
Wow! That must have been epic
Idk why but the mountains on Axel Heinburg island look like something that you would build the Acropolis of Athens on
They do!
Pretty funny that anhydrous gypsum is found there.
Bathurst and Melville Islands are also found next to each other in NT Australia.
Interesting.
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big fan i want to know every niche fact about these islands!
Stay tuned to the channel!
I love geography
Me too brother!
@ I think in the future CANADA 🇨🇦 is goin to be a superpower country because of all the resources that’s up in that area because of the climate change
@ the British might take the country back. Lol lol.
Commenting from 'Baffin' right now.
Thanks for watching 🙏
Drinking game: Take a drink everytime he says island/islands
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I too am fascinated by the far-northern islands in Canada. I would not want to visit those places, since my transportation to and from those places, anything I could do, use, or stay in while I was there would damage it. The territory should be left alone - except for First Nations people who go there from time to time, and research scientists.
id love to visit this region
What about the fish man. The arctic char, the arctic fashionfish.
These are probably the last islands in the world that are almost completely untouched by humans
Definitely, among the last few.
Luckily high school goers dont wanna live there
I really like that you talked so good details about Canada, I love this country so much ❤🇨🇦
Thank you! I didnt know these islands are forgotten, mostly I know Alert, and the other 2 not much the thing is Canada owns Alert therefore they made it the mitarty base instead of a town because it's to cold.
Have a good day!
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Extra info: Alert is the place when Canadians get ready for the war, and prepare to fight against other countries to be able to have access the sea so they could get close. Future military bases will also be placed at Alert!
Thank you so much for your awesome comment, and for subbing! I’m glad you enjoy my content, I love Canada 🇨🇦. More cool content on the way!
@@Urban_Atlas No problem! Yes, cannot wait for the new content soon
canadas most mysterious island is the one they fake being on mars on...
Got a video on that!
Interesting, as an American that left school before Northwest Territory was officially split, the only thing I remember about the Islands up there was Franklin's getting the Erebus and Terror, and probably the only reason I remember that was they had found some bodies and why not video tape it and make it into an educational tv show..anyways probably not what to show 5-6th graders.
Northern Fire Apparatus service the Firetrucks in Grise Fjord in February.
This was awesome
you need a better mic! lots of ick going on there lol. otherwise, I liked the video a lot!
Thank you!
Check out the Canadian Polar Continental Shelf Program. They have operated in these islands for many years and are the real experts of the high Arctic!
谢谢你。 非常好。
Glad you enjoyed it!
What about the weather station Isachsen, Nunavut?
Abandoned currently, the army and scientists do visit occasionally but no permanent setup
I've always wanted to see what happens when glaciers flow over large salt deposits
Great vid, please lose the loud clicks when you show graphics
Apologies for that 🙏. Glad you like the video!
@Urban_Atlas no need to apologize just wanted to share that it might trigger some sounds sensitive folks 😁 keep up the creativity!
Please keep making more videos. I’ve loved each one so far.
Thank you so much 🙏! I appreciate you, more videos on the way!
Now that you have made a video about these islands real estate developers can go there and build gated retirement communities for rich Americans.
Doubt it.
Where do you buy lottery tickets scratch ‘n Win etcetera…up there…Strip mall would do well…
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That clicking sound makes me want to throw my phone
Melville Island has tar sands, doesn't it? Have you considered doing a video there?
Does any fishing go on in these areas?
I always saw amund ringnes as a man making a weird face lol
Kinda see it too
Do they have oil on the island with the huge salt domes???