From left to right, Ashley Ballantyne of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dara Finney of Environment Canada and Natalia Rybczynski of the Canadian Museum of Nature search for fossils in a peat deposit at Strathcona Fiord on Ellesmere Island in Canada's High Arctic. A far northern military base (CFB Alert) and weather station (Eureka) are reachable only by aircraft. Abstract: Eureka is located on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, the northernmost of Canada's three territories (Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon). Also in the area is Cape Hare at 550 meters, Sawtooth Ridge with peaks up to 1200 meters. Eureka, Ellesmere Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. source: "An Underground Cathedral", article by Charles Hillinger in THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, Mar. It is located on the north side of Slidre Fiord, which enters Eureka Sound farther west. It is the third-northernmost permanent research community in the world. Heart of the Nation Catholic Mass reaches 156 television markets nationwide on broadcast and cable channels. Eureka Sound on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic is seen in a NASA Operation IceBridge survey picture taken March 25, 2014. Ellesmere Island is separated to the east by Nares Strait from Greenland, to the west by Eureka Sound and Nansen Sound from Axel Heiberg Island, and to the south by Jones Sound and Cardigan Strait from Devon Island.. Ellesmere Island contains Canada's northernmost point, Cape Columbia, at 83°6′41″N. It’s why I travelled to Ellesmere Island, high in the Canadian Arctic, joining a documentary film crew. On Satellite TV, you can find Sunday Mass on the DISH Network and DirecTV. Petroleum deposits have been discovered on the island. Eureka is one of the world’s northernmost research settlements. The landscape is so remote, and in winter so cold, that humans rarely visit. Latitude and longitude coordinates are: 80.750389, -72.665192. Eureka Airport is the most important airport of Eureka Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.It is modern and one of the largest airport of the North America.Eureka Airport is important for people and goverment of Canada. Summary of a strategic assessment of effects on the environment regarding the plan for the refurbishment of Eureka Weather Station and surrounding facilities on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. The world's tenth largest island, Ellesmere Island has one small community (Grise Fiord) which is reachable by air (from Resolute Bay on Cornwallis Island) or – seasonally – by sea in summer. Alert, a weather station further down Ellesmere Island, Eureka, has the lowest average annual temperature of any weather station in Canada. At Eureka weather station, ~100 km to the southwest of the Northern Ellesmere Icefield, mean monthly precipitable water ranged from 1.8 mm in late winter to 12 mm in July between 1961 and 2007, with a 10% increase in mean annual precipitable water over this period (Fig. The vistas of far-off glaciers and the rugged multi-colored cliffs of folded and uplifted rocks flanked the fjord, which at times gave way to rolling hills of tundra. It is the second-northernmost permanent research community in the World. A single core of the Canadian high Arctic was collected in May 2003 at Eureka (80°0.029 N, 85° 50.367 W85°50.3 67 W), Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada ( Fig. Ellesmere Island is the largest of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and the 10th-largest island in the world. This is an artist's rendering of the Beaver Pond site on Ellesmere Island, in Canada's High Arctic, as it may have looked about 3 to 5 million years ago. Eureka is a small research base on Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. 128 2003 at Eureka (80°0.029 N, 85°50.367 W85°50.367 W), Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada 129 (Figure 1A) [39]. Protected areas. The Eureka weather station was established in 1947 and has been manned continously since then. The field research In the early afternoon we sailed into Eureka Strait, and after passing latitude 78, we spotted a herd of caribou in the distance on the western slopes Ellesmere. IATA and ICAO codes of Eureka Airport During the summer of 2008, large portions of the Ayles, Markham, Ward-Hunt, and Serson ice shelves calved into icebergs. Burlington is committed to the well-being and safety of our associates and customers, so some of our locations may observe closures or shortened hours. The landscape is so remote, and in winter so cold, that humans rarely visit. EUREKA - A mysterious maze of underground tunnels and rooms discovered beneath the immediate area of Eureka. In Ellesmere Island …Eureka, Grise Ford (Aujuittuq), and Alert, a weather station and military outpost that is the northernmost community in North America. It is the second most northerly point in Canada after Alert. It is located at latitude 79°59' N on the Fosheim Peninsula of Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island. Caption. Eureka is a small research base on Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Glendonite Eureka, Ellesmere Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. The field research was done with the permission of the Government of Nunavut It’s why I traveled to Ellesmere Island, high in the Canadian Arctic, joining a documentary film crew. Activities were conducted from Eureka at the old Polar Continental Shelf Project operational base. 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