Ellef Ringnes Island
Ellef Ringnes Iceland is an island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, and one of the Sverdrup Islands, an archipelago of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. It is located east of Borden Island and Amund Ringnes west of Iceland and has an area of 11,295 km ² (according to other sources 10,600 km ²).
The island was in 1901 by Gunnerius Ingvald Isachsen, a member of the direction of Otto Sverdrup Second Fram Expedition ( 1898-1902 ), discovered and after Ellef Ringnes ( 1842-1929 ), co-founder of the Norwegian brewery Ringnes named, funded the Sverdrup expedition had. As the whole group of islands Svendrup she too was taken by Svendrup for Norway in possession. This collided with the conviction of Canada that all discovered and undiscovered areas would belong in the northern parts of America to Canada. The negotiations ended 1930. From then on, the island was part of the Northwest Territories of Canada. When they reduced the area of the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, the island came under administration of the newly created territory of Nunavut.
Much of the island consists of flat terrain of sedimentary rock. The central area is an eroded mountain area, which forms a 240 -meter-high plateau. The greatest heights reached the island in four flat hilltops, the Isachsen Dome ( with 260 meters the highest point on the island ), Salt Dome, Malloch Dome and Hoodoo Dome.
Today's unmanned Isachsen weather station located on the west coast of the otherwise uninhabited island at 78 ° 46 '59 "N, 103 ° 29' 59" W78.783055555556 - 103.49972222222.
The north magnetic pole wandered in 1994 in the north- north-west of the island.