Brodeur Peninsula

Geographical location

Brodeur Peninsula is a large peninsula in the northwest of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago -. Politically it belongs to the region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut Qikiqtaaluk. It is named after the Canadian politician Louis -Philippe Brodeur.

Geography

The peninsula forms the extreme north-west of Baffin Island, to which it is connected by a 5 km wide isthmus in the south. Brodeur Peninsula is about 310 km long, up to 170 km wide and has an area of ​​approximately 28,000 km ². It separates the Admiralty Inlet to the east by the Prince Regent Inlet in the West Baffin Iceland Somerset Iceland severed. In the north of the peninsula abutting the Lancaster Sound, a part of the Northwest Passage. The landscape is characterized by mostly flat tundra; the climate is polar.

Wildlife ( fauna)

In the north- west of the peninsula there is a 475 km ² Important Bird Area (# NU065 ) in which, among others, the endangered ivory gull in Canada ( Pagophila eburnea ) occurs. The western part of the peninsula is known as mating area for polar bears (Ursus maritimus ).