page_title: Bylot Island
section_title: Cultural references
hierarchical_section_title: Bylot Island / Cultural references
caption_attribution_description: A much larger mothership than before. This mountain glacier is one of many streams of ice coming down from the interior ice cap on top of Byam Martin Mtns. View large to see this 3 mile wide tongue's terminal moraine. Pond Inlet is the nearest community to Sirmilik National Park. For those folks looking for the most scenic places to visit in Canada's far north, I am one happy camper who will point you to landscape painter Cory Trepanier's video "Into the Arctic II". intothearctic.com/ Deutsch: Gletscher der Byam Martin Mountains auf der, der an seinem Rand eine Endmoräne aufschüttet.
context_page_description: Bylot Island lies off the northern end of Baffin Island in Nunavut Territory, Canada. Eclipse Sound to the southeast and Navy Board Inlet to the southwest separate it from Baffin Island. Parry Channel lies to its northwest. At 11,067 km² it is ranked 71st largest island in the world and Canada's 17th largest island. The island measures 180 km east to west and 110 km north to south and is one of the largest uninhabited islands in the world. While there are no permanent settlements on this Canadian Arctic island, Inuit from Pond Inlet and elsewhere regularly travel to Bylot Island. An Inuit seasonal hunting camp is located southwest of Cape Graham Moore.
  The island's mountains are part of the Byam Martin Mountains, which is part of the Baffin Mountains of the Arctic Cordillera. In addition to Angilaaq Mountain, Malik Mountain, Mount St. Hans, and Mount Thule are notable. Tay Bay is on the west coast. Vertical cliffs along the coastline are made up of Precambrian dolomite. There are numerous glaciers. The western shore faces Navy Board Inlet. The island's north shore, facing Lancaster Sound, is a polar bear maternity den area.
context_section_description: In 2010, a painting of Bylot Island titled "Bylot Island I" by Lawren Harris, one of the Group of Seven mid-century Canadian artists, was sold at auction for $2.8 million, one of the highest prices ever paid for a work by a Canadian artist.
caption: "The Mothership", a 5 km-wide (3-mile) wide terminal lobe of a glacier flowing down from the interior ice cap on top of the Byam Martin Mountains. Note the dramatic terminal moraine "bulldozed" at the ice front.
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