Ottawa reveals plans to shut down and offload Nanisivik naval port on Baffin Island
The federal government is shutting down its short-lived Nanisivik naval station on northern Baffin Island as a cost-cutting measure, and plans eventually to offload the property to another party.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ottawa-reveals-plans-to-shut-down-and-offload-nanisivik-naval-port-on-baffin-island-9.7207826?cmp=rss
Ottawa reveals plans to shut down and offload Nanisivik naval port on Baffin Island
The federal government is shutting down its short-lived Nanisivik naval station on northern Baffin Island as a cost-cutting measure, and plans eventually to offload the property to another party.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ottawa-reveals-plans-to-shut-down-and-offload-nanisivik-naval-port-on-baffin-island-9.7207826?cmp=rss
Naujaat hunters want to halt the Baffinland's railway and port project at Steensby Inlet
The hunter and trappers organization in Naujaat, situated roughly 525 kilometres from the proposed port, wants the project to be reconsidered. Naujaat is in the Kivalliq region, so at first glance, the HTO didn’t anticipate being affected by a project far away on Baffin Island. But it says more recent research has...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/naujaat-hunters-baffinland-steensby-9.7179103?cmp=rss
Low-lying cloud obscures the mountainous shoreline of Eclipse Sound between Baffin and Bylot Islands. #landscape #scape #seascape #mountains #blackandwhite #monochrome #classicmono #arctic #cloud #baffinisland #canada #ECK
Sun reflects off the roofs of Pond Inlet on Baffin Island in August 2022. #silhouette #reflections #blackandwhite #monochrome #classicmono #pondinlet #baffinisland #EastCoastKin

Hand sample and thin section of a pillow rind and interior from Palaeogene lavas of eastern Baffin island. The solidifying melt continued to exsolve gas bubbles, trapped in the pillow interior by the rind.

#ThinsectionThursday #BaffinIsland #Basalt #Geology

Pond Inlet, Nunavut, man faces charges after hamlet put in lockdown
A 47-year-old man faces several charges after allegedly assaulting a woman and ramming a house with an all-terrain vehicle in the Baffin Island hamlet on Wednesday.
#crime #assault #lockdown #PondInlet #Nunavut #BaffinIsland
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/pond-inlet-nunavut-man-faces-charges-after-hamlet-put-in-lockdown-9.7039728?cmp=rss
View from Pond Inlet on Baffin Island of a mountain on Bylot Island along the shore of Eclipse Sound. #photography #mono #classicmono #blackandwhite #monochrome #landscape #scape #mountain #cloud #north #arctic #baffinisland #pondinlet #EastCoastKin

Camilla Hempleman-Adams musste sich bei den Inuit entschuldigen, nachdem sie in typisch kolonialer Denkweise erklärt hatte, sie sei die erste Frau, die Baffin Island solo durchquert habe.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/british-woman-apologizes-nunavut-record-1.7505857

#Decolonisation #Inuit #Arctic #BaffinIsland #ArcticExpedition #PolarExpedition

British woman apologizes for claims she set a record in Nunavut | CBC News

Many media outlets around the world reported Camilla Hempleman-Adams as the first woman to trek solo across Baffin Island, causing outrage among some Nunavummiut.

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