Just as breakfast began this morning we started to enter the ice between Devon and Cornwallis Islands….we have been spotting for wildlife on and between the floes….just a couple of polar bears today, way in the distance. No ship docking … Continue reading →

Philpots Island lies to the east of Devon Island, in Baffin Bay and is home to Northern Fulmars, Glaucous Gulls and Ivory Gulls. These birds are opportunistic scavengers often found on seal corpses. They have been known to follow polar … Continue reading →

Some nasty history re the Island. The Canadian govt ‘removed’ some Inuit from another area and forced them to live on Ellesmere, as part of a ‘staking a land claim strategy’ vis a vis Norway. The Inuit were totally unprepared … Continue reading →