Seymour Island (Nunavut)

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Seymour Iceland is an uninhabited island in the territory of Nunavut, Canada. It belongs to the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Arctic Ocean.

The 2.5 -kilometer-long island is about eleven kilometers north of Helena Iceland. It is very flat and has several freshwater ponds. The vegetation is sparse and consists mainly of mosses and lichens. The island is almost all year round surrounded by ice, polynyas in the Penny Strait offer here nesting birds but access to open water and thus food.

Since 1975, comprises a 54 km ² large bird sanctuary, the Seymour Iceland Bird Sanctuary, both the island and the adjacent sea area within a radius of two miles. From BirdLife International will be recognized as an Important Bird Area ( NU045 ). Besides brent geese, snowy owls, ravens, arctic skuas, Falk skuas, Spatelraubmöwen, Thayermöwen and glaucous gulls nesting on the island of 100 to 125 pairs of the rare Ivory Gull. Polar bears are often found on Seymour Iceland, arctic foxes and polar wolves but rarely.