Akpatok
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| Waters | Ungava Bay | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 25 ′ N , 68 ° 8 ′ W | |
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| length | 48 km | |
| width | 26 km | |
| surface | 903 km² | |
| Highest elevation | Cox Ridges 281 m |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
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Akpatok is an uninhabited island in Ungava Bay off the north coast of the Labrador Peninsula in Canada . Administratively, it belongs to the Qikiqtaaluk region of Nunavut Territory .
geography
Akpatok is located around 70 km off the east coast of the Ungava Peninsula in northern Labrador and around 180 km south of Baffin Island . It is 48 km long, 26 km wide and has an area of 903 km², which makes it by far the largest island in Ungava Bay. The coast is distinguished from 40 to 250 m high cliff of limestone , leading to a 45 × 23 km wide plateau carry.
In the Cox Ridges in the center, the island rises up to 281 meters.
Animal world (fauna)
Akpatok is a Canadian Important Bird Area (NU007) and a Key Migratory Bird Terrestrial Habitat Site (NU Site 50) of the Canadian Wildlife Service . Protect values bird species are the peregrine falcon ( Falco peregrinus ), the gyrfalcon ( Falco rusticolus ), the black guillemot ( Cepphus grylle ) and represented an estimated 600,000 breeding pairs thick-billed murre ( Uria lomvia ) whose Inuit -Name Akpat was named for the island. Polar bears and walruses are found in mammals .
Web links
- An image of the cliff coast on panoramio
- Akpatok ( Memento from September 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at Oceandots (English)
- Akpatok at IBA Canada (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Atlas of Canada - Sea Islands ( Memento from January 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Map of Akpatok Island in the Atlas of Canada (English)
- ↑ a b Akpatok Island on IBA Canada (English)
- ↑ Key migratory bird terrestrial habitat sites in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (PDF; 1.7 MB) publications.gc.ca. P. 6. Retrieved November 25, 2013.