In the Middle Ages, their tusks were mistaken for unicorn horns and were deemed so magical that Ivan the Terrible called for one on his deathbed – and even today, narwhal still retain a little ...

Bylot Island, background, lies just north of Pond Inlet, the northernmost town on Baffin Island. Photo: Jerry Kobalenko Intrigued, they started testing the layers of sediment on top of the ice.

Madagascar comes in fourth as the largest island in Africa, off the southeast coast of the continent in the Indian Ocean at 226,658 square miles. Fifth is Baffin Island - it is one of three ...

Inuit hunters from a small community in Nunavut are demanding a reassessment of a proposed expansion to an iron ore mine.

Following in the footsteps of Swiss big wall legend Xaver Bongard who in summer 1987 led the first climbing expedition to Baffin Island's East Coast, a strong team of international climbers comprised ...

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These remote national parks in the high Arctic of Nunavut's Baffin Island feature jagged, frosted mountain ranges, traditional Inuit villages, glacier-carved fjords, and vast, uninhabited tundra.

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