Arctic Canada
To a land so vast, so harsh, so uncompromising, so ostensibly barren, so prone to weather extremes. Although it is true that the Arctic is harsh and desolate, that statement does not represent the entire truth. To the Inuit who live here, it is home. To the many who have travelled through it, the Arctic is not desolate at all; rather, it is a place of intense beauty and elemental purity, a place where it is still possible to contemplate the very forces that sculpted our planet. A spectacular realm of ice sheets and glaciers, thrusting peaks of bare rock, ice caverns and glacial cirques, the Arctic stretches from Ellesmere Island to the forests of mainland Labrador and the peat bogs southwest of Hudson Bay. Geology and climate dominate this frozen kingdom, where the last ice age is not a distant folk memory but an everyday reality. Icebergs are sculpted into spectacular shapes as they gradually melt in the open ocean. Pack Ice: Pack ice, also called sea ice, is a layer of frozen seawater typically seen floating on the polar oceans. At its maximum extent it covers up to 13 percent of the Earth's surface, making it one of the major habitat types on the planet. Though pack ice is comparable in area to the world's deserts, only relatively recently have polar scientist begun to unlock its fascinating secrets. Armed with the latest ship and satellite technology, they have discovered how it forms, grows and supports a host of living inhabitants - from the tiniest viruses to mammoth whales.
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