A chartered Boeing 737 plane crashed Saturday afternoon in Canada's Arctic region, killing 12 people, police said. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the plane went down near the hamlet of Resolute Bay in the Arctic territory of Nunavut. The First Air charter flight was traveling from Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories to Resolute Bay, and was scheduled to continue on to Ellesmere Island.
When Robert Peary came back from the North Pole 100 years ago, he brought with him a tale of sighting a previously undiscovered land to the west of Ellesmere Island, the starting point for the race to the pole. That tale sent one of his Arctic companions, Donald B. MacMillan, on an expedition to find this land - Crocker Land, Peary had named it - and explore it. It also appealed to the adventurous side of a Bangor-born physician, Dr. Harrison Hunt, who signed on for the journey as the expedition's doctor.
TORONTO -- A giant ice shelf has snapped free from an island south of the North Pole, scientists said Thursday, citing climate change as a "major" reason for the event. The Ayles Ice Shelf -- all 41 square miles of it -- broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 500 miles south of the North Pole in the Canadian Arctic.
A barren desert island in the High Arctic populated only by seals and the occasional polar bear is at the center of a diplomatic tiff between otherwise friendly Canada and Denmark after Canadian Defense Minister Bill Graham quietly set foot on the disputed land last week. Hans Island, a round frozen outcrop in the middle of the Kennedy Channel that separates Greenland from Canada's Ellesmere Island, is claimed by both Arctic nations.
... for a navigable route through the Arctic islands to Asia. Their greatest challenge was sea-ice, whi... is larger than Britain, (21) while Ellesmere and Victoria Islands are nearly as large. (22) Bet...
When explorers Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen step onto the ice of the Arctic Ocean in northern Canada today, they will become the eyes and hands of several groups of researchers looking to the top of the world for evidence of the causes of a warming polar climate. Dupre and Larsen, a Cedarburg native, are planning a summer expedition across the Arctic ice that will take them about 1,100 miles from the northern tip of Ellesmere Island to the North Pole and then south to Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland.
TORONTO - A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday. Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, said the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean.
Cedarburg native Eric Larsen and fellow explorer Lonnie Dupre stepped onto the ice of the Arctic Ocean late Monday to begin a 1,100-mile trek to the North Pole and back, a spokesman for the international environmental organization Greenpeace confirmed Tuesday. The pair's trip started at Ellesmere Island, Canada, and will end at Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland.
Report: Iran sentences hikers to prison terms TEHRAN, Iran - Two American men arrested more than two years ago while hiking along the Iraq-Iran border have been sentenced to eight years in prison on charges that include espionage, state TV reported Saturday, a sharp blow to hopes their release was imminent.
... to continue on to Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island. RCMP Constable Angelique Dignard said 12 p...
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...Many travelers think they know these islands -- but south of Ocracoke Inlet, there rises a lumi...Jan. 23. On Canada's remote Ellesmere Island, where June is spring, July is summer and A...
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