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Baffin Island

Baffin Island (Inukitut) sits between the Arctic Canadian mainland and Greenland. Its the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest island world. The coast lines of the island is inhabited by Innuits numbering 11,000 who live in the traditional means of hunting and fishing. On the south western peninsula of the island is the Penny ice cap.

Penny Ice Cap

The Penny ice cap is huge; it covers over 5,000 square kilometres (approximately a quarter of the size of Wales) with ice as thick as 300 metres in places and is believed by many to be the birthplace of the last ice age. Baffin Island’s ice caps are in the remote arctic where the accumulation of snow due to the low summer temperatures provides an excellent record of past climates and has been the base for several major scientific studies into climatic change and global warming in the past.