Featuring extreme wilderness and isolation, Quttinirpaaq National Park, as its Inuktitut name suggests, is truly the top of the world. Located on the north tip of Ellesmere Island, it’s only 720 kilometers away from the North Pole. The park consists of sedimentary mountains, ice caps, glaciers, ice shelves and fiords. The park borders on the Arctic Ocean and rises to Mount Barbeau, at 2616 m the highest mountain in eastern North America. Much of the park, including the Hazen Plateau, is a polar desert receiving less than 2.5cm of annual precipitation. Some areas of highly productive sedge grasslands occur, which support a range of Arctic wildlife including muskox, arctic hare, wolves and the endangered Peary caribou.
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Date: May 12
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