Bylot Island

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Bylot Island, Nunavut
Bylot Island, Nunavut
USGS satellite image of Bylot Island
USGS satellite image of Bylot Island

Bylot Island lies off the northern end of Baffin Island in Nunavut Territory, Canada. At 11,067 km² (4,273 sq mi) it is ranked 71st largest island in the world and Canada's 17th largest island.[citation needed] While there are no permanent settlements on this Canadian Arctic island, Inuit from Pond Inlet and elsewhere regularly travel to Bylot Island.

Almost all of the island is within the Sirmilik National Park, harbouring large populations of thick-billed murres, Black-legged_Kittiwakes and greater snow geese.

The island is named for the Arctic explorer Robert Bylot.

The mountains on Bylot Island are part of the Byam Martin Mountains, which is part of the Baffin Mountains of the Arctic Cordillera.

  • Audet, Benoit, Gilles Gauthier, and Esther Levesque. 2007. "Feeding Ecology of Greater Snow Goose Goslings in Mesic Tundra on Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada". The Condor. 109, no. 2: 361.
  • Drury, W. H., and Mary B. Drury. The Bylot Island Expedition. [Lincoln, Mass.]: Massachusetts Audubon Society, 1955.
  • Falconer, G. Glaciers of Northern Baffin and Bylot Islands, NWT. Ottawa: Geographical Branch, Dept. of Mines and Technical Surveys, 1962.
  • Fortier, Daniel, Michel Allard, and Yuri Shur. 2007. "Observation of Rapid Drainage System Development by Thermal Erosion of Ice Wedges on Bylot Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago". Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 18, no. 3: 229.
  • Hofmann, H. J., and G. D. Jackson. Shale-Facies Microfossils from the Proterozoic Bylot Supergroup, Baffin Island, Canada. [Tulsa, OK]: Paleontological Society, 1994.
  • Klassen, R. A. Quaternary Geology and Glacial History of Bylot Island, Northwest Territories. Ottawa, Canada: Geological Survey of Canada, 1993. ISBN 0660149893
  • Scherman, Katharine (1956). Spring on an Arctic Island. Travel literature of a research trip to Bylot Island in 1954.

Coordinates: 73°00′N, 78°00′W


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