In 2005, nearly the entire shelf calved from the northern edge of Ellesmere Island.

In 2006, the population of Ellesmere Island was recorded as 146.

Its only land contact is with the northern coast of Ellesmere Island.

Due to its high latitude and limited wildlife, there has never been any significant human presence within this part of Ellesmere Island.

It was found on Ellesmere Island and is estimated to be 375 million years old.

Even at that time, Ellesmere Island was only a few degrees in latitude further south than it is today.

Ellesmere Island lost much of its original ice shelf in the 1930s and 1940s, a particularly warm period in the last century.

In 1957 he began 16 years of research on Ellesmere Island.

And indeed, there is no such land north of Ellesmere Island.

A relatively narrow land bridge connects the peninsula to the rest of Ellesmere Island to the west.