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Surrounded by ice, is the still frozen village of
Qikiqtarjuaq [link]
on Broughton Island, just off the much larger Baffin Island in Nunavut,
Canada. While airborne from 36,000 you could appreciate the true isolation
of the 500 people in this Arctic community, still many weeks from the
first signs of Spring
[weather
now].
The long dark line (center-bottom) is the community’s Airport, with the
village just below. The smooth flat white area that extends past the right
of the village is actually frozen sea ice. In summer, migrating Greenland
icebergs allow Qikiqtarjuaq [more]
to be known as the “Iceberg capital of the world”. North Pangnirtung
Fjord is seen extending from the center up to the right across the
Cumberland Peninsula through Auyuittuq National Park [Park]
towards Penny Ice Cap. Location: 67.5N, W064 [Map].
[Hotel].
Olympus C70z.
22 April 2007, 1834z. Close: [800x600].
Wide: [800x600].
Photo: (c)
2007 Brian Whittaker (.com)
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