Seymour Island (Nunavut)
| Seymour Island | ||
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| Waters | Arctic Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Queen Elizabeth Islands | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 48 ′ N , 101 ° 16 ′ W | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
| width | 1 km | |
| surface | 2 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 28 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Seymour Island is an uninhabited island in Nunavut Territory , Canada . It belongs to the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Arctic Ocean .
The island is only 2.5 kilometers long and is about eleven kilometers north of Helena Island . It is very shallow and has several freshwater ponds. Their vegetation is sparse and consists mainly of mosses and lichens . The island is surrounded by sea ice almost all year round , but polynjas in Penny Strait offer nesting birds access to open water and thus food.
Since 1975, a 54 km² bird sanctuary, the Seymour Island Bird Sanctuary , encompasses both the island and the adjacent marine area within a radius of two miles. It is designated as an Important Bird Area (NU045) by BirdLife International . In addition to brent geese , snowy owls , common ravens , arctic skuas , hawk skuas , spatula skuas , Thai gulls and ice gulls, 100 to 125 pairs of the rare ivory gulls breed on the island . Polar bears are common on Seymour Island, while arctic foxes and arctic wolves are rare.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Michéal O'Brian, Austin Reed, Stewart D. Macdonald: Breeding, Moulting, and Site Fidelity of Brant (Branta bernicla) on Bathurst and Seymour Islands in the Canadian High Arctic (PDF; 613 kB). In: Arctic 51 (4), 1998, pp. 350-360 (English)
- ↑ a b c P.B. Latour et al. : Key migratory bird terrestrial habitat sites in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (PDF; 12.5 MB). Canadian Wildlife Service, Occasional Paper No. 114, 2008, ISBN 978-0-662-46720-5 , p. 45, accessed on August 4, 2020 (English)
- ↑ Canadian Important Bird Areas - Seymour Island (NU045) , accessed on July 15, 2013 (English)