Akpatok Island

Akpatok Iceland is an uninhabited island in Ungava Bay off the north coast of the Labrador Peninsula in Canada. Administratively it belongs to the region of the territory of Nunavut Qikiqtaaluk.

Geography

Akpatok Iceland is located approximately 70 km off the east coast of the Ungava Peninsula in northern Labrador, and around 180 km south of Baffin Island. It is 48 km long, 26 km wide and has an area of 903 km ², making it the by far the largest island in Ungava Bay. The coastline is marked from 40 to 250 m high cliffs of limestone, leading to a 45 × 23 km wide plateau.

In the Cox Ridges in the center of the island rises up to 281 meters.

Wildlife ( fauna)

Akpatok Iceland is a Canadian Important Bird Area (# NU007 ) and a Key Migratory Bird Terrestrial Habitat site (NU Site 50) of the Canadian Wildlife Service. Worth protecting birds are the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), black guillemot ( Cepphus grylle ) and the thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia ) whose Inuit name was Akpat name to the island. In mammals polar bears and walruses occur.