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Rea Point, Nunavut: 1978 Heaviest hailstone: 292.71 g (0.65 lb) [13] Markerville, Alberta: August 1, 2022 Strongest tornado: F5 [14] 420–510 km/h (260–320 mph) Elie, Manitoba: June 22, 2007 Greatest same-day temperature change +43°C (+77.4°F) [15] Tatla Lake, British Columbia: January 5, 1982 Greatest one-day change in daily maximum ...
Lake Manitou on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, Ontario — most extensive lake on an island in a lake on Earth at 104 km 2 (40 square Upper Dumbell Lake on Ellesmere Island Nunavut 82°28′N 062°30′W / 82.467°N 62.500°W / 82.467; -62.500 ( Upper Dumbell Lake ) — most northern lake, there are more northern lakes but ...
Nunavut lakes larger than 400 km 2 (150 sq mi) Lake ... Kasba Lake in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut; MacAlpine Lake; Maguse Lake; Mallery Lake; Ktulik Lake;
Naujaat (Inuktitut: ᓇᐅᔮᑦ, lit. 'seagulls' nesting place'), Anglicised and officially known until 2 July 2015 as Repulse Bay, [6] is an Inuit hamlet situated on the Arctic Circle.
Nunavut. The Canadian territory of Nunavut lies mainly in the North American Arctic and covers about 1,994,071 km 2 (769,915 sq mi) (1,836,994 km 2 [709,267 sq mi] land [1] and 157,077 km 2 [60,648 sq mi] water [2]) of land and water including part of the mainland, most of the islands in the Arctic Archipelago, and all of the islands in Hudson Bay, James Bay, and Ungava Bay (including the ...
In accordance with the schedule, the aircraft flew over Byron Bay in what is now Nunavut at 11:04 p.m. About 100 miles (160 km) further north, the aircraft climbed to an altitude of 25,000 feet (7,600 m). When the aircraft was about 150 miles (240 km) from Rea Point, the crew made radio contact with the landing site.
In 1930, a large sandstone rock marking Parry's 1819 wintering site at Winter Harbour, approximately five point five metres (18 ft) long and three metres (10 ft) high, was designated a National Historic Site of Canada. [11]
Eureka was founded on April 7, 1947, as part of an initiative to set up a network of Arctic weather stations. [10] On this date, 100 t (98 long tons; 110 short tons) of supplies were airlifted to a promising spot on Ellesmere Island, and five prefabricated Jamesway huts were constructed.