Inuit from Baffin Island have visited seasonally and a trading station operated at Button Point on the southeastern corner for several years after 1910, but there are no settlements today. To the east the island overlooks a part of BAFFIN BAY, which was much frequented by European whalers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was officially claimed as part of Canada by Captain Joseph Elzéar BERNIER in 1906. The island is named after Robert BYLOT.
Author DANIEL FRANCIS
Links to Other Sites
Sirmilik National Park
This illustrated Parks Canada website offers information about the ecology, geography, and history of Sirmilik National Park.
Ecological Studies and Environmental Monitoring at Bylot Island, Sirmilik National Park
An overview of the Bylot Island research project, one of the largest and longest ecological studies in Nunavut. Beautiful photos of the spectacular landscape and indigenous wildlife. A Laval University website.
Pingo
A photograph of a Pingo on a glacial outwash plain, Bylot Island, Nunavut. Search this site for additional images of pingo formations. From the Geological Survey of Canada.
Among the officers wearing the same brilliant cherry red and royal blue uniforms of the 11th Hussars that day was young Alexander Dunn of Toronto. As the trumpeter sounded the “walk march,” Dunn felt his heart pound and the hair rise on the back of his neck...
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