Talk:Ellesmere Island

message: I think a section should be added on it's presence in the media. It's a major part of the book 'The Deception Point' by Dan Brown. I'm sure there is others. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.167.89.219 (talk) 
*Speaking of books, Christopher Paolini uses the name as a cognate of sorts for a city in his trilogy--FullMetal (talk) 00:52, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Media 

message: I do not know what this means. Google search for "Post-Ruin Island" shows duplicates of the wikipedia item. (Assuming Wp is the original source.) I suggest this phrase should be elucidated, linked or removed. Toronto, 416 423 0243 (talk) 13:34, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-Ruin Island 

message: Am I the only one who thinks that it's a spectacularly bad idea to use the Mercator projection for an island this far north? Psychonaut 00:08, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Projection 

message: I've just written the article on Ward Hunt and am wondering... it seems highly questionable, but does anyone know where the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf and Ward Hunt Island got their names? Thehappysmith 10:02, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ward Hunt 

message: Does anyone have a likely source for the geological history of the island -- when and how it formed?  Cleduc 21:44, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geological history 

message: Ellesmere Island is absolutely beautiful. I think it would be nice if there were some pictures here instead of just maps Canking 23:18, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: It is my impression, based on reading materials from the period, that the American expeditions on Ellesmere Island gave the United States, if only for a time, precedence under international law in their right to hold sovereignty over the island.  If this was ever true, when was it, and also where?  Are there any good articles on the subject?CharlesRobertCountofNesselrode 11:01, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Claims by Right of Discovery 

message: I don't think the United States Range is the northernmost mountain range on Earth. The United States Range is located (), however there's another mountain range called the Challenger Mountains which appears to be northwest of the United States Range (). Black Tusk 08:12, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Semi-related: the article says Ellesmere contains the northernmost point of land in Canada. Isn't it also the northernmost point of land on earth? McGehee (talk) 04:18, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, Kaffeklubben Island is the notrhernmost point of land on earth. Also Cape Morris Jesup, the northern tip of mainland Greenland, reaches further north than Ellesmere Island.--Ratzer (talk) 17:18, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  United States Range 

message: On 60 Minutes just now it was stated that crocodiles lived on Ellesmere Island millions of years ago, during a particularly warm period. Perhaps the article should go a bit further back to this period. Badagnani (talk) 00:12, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crocodiles millions of years ago 

message: In the section "History of Ellesmere Island" it says that the first inhabitants of Ellesmere Island were small bands of Inuit drawn to the area for Peary Caribou, muskox, and marine mammal hunting about 1000-2000 BC. However, the Thule culture did not come out of Alaska until about 1000 CE. So is this anachronistic reference to Inuit actuall the Dorset, Saqqaq, Independance I or Endependance II cultures? I shall remove that reference to the Inuit and let somebody else put in place the proper peoples. Bytor (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 14:22, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arrival of Inuit 

message: "As was the case for the Dorset (or Palaeoeskimo) hunters and the pioneering Neoeskimos, "
The Dorset people were not a type of eskimo, they were displaced by the eskimo. The Dorset people were the aboriginal people of the NA artic and were displaced by the eskimo which came from Siberia.
:According to Early Palaeo-Eskimo Culture (Précis, Chapter 21) the Palaeo-Eskimo were there before the Dorset. Also if you keep reading there is this sentence, "By the end of Period III a number of changes take place in Early Palaeo-Eskimo culture and initiate the Period IV Middle Palaeo-Eskimo culture referred to as Dorset." The timeline at Carlton University indicates the Palaeo-Eskimo came before the Dorset and from Siberia. Other reading Archeaeological Sites of Newfoundland and Labrador. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 23:33, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  dorset = paleoeskimo? 

message: :Category:Ellesmere Island is itself a category within :Category:Queen Elizabeth Islands. — Robert Greer (talk) 03:40, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Is that not correct? I thought that Ellesmere was part of QE Islands. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 07:35, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah I see what you mean. Enter CambridgeBayWeather, waits for audience applause, not a sausage 07:47, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Queen Elizabeth Islands]] ''vs.'' [[:Category:Ellesmere Island]]  

message: There are multiple entries for these fields: I don't know which one is appropriate so I have left them as they are, could someone more knowledgeable delete all but the correct version?Ordinary Person (talk) 04:32, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox width and length

message: It would be very helpful to explain the names of the geographic features on and around the island beyond the settlements. Many but not all are mentioned in :Category:Ellesmere Island. This map is the closest I could find to what this article probably needs. This map also does a good job showing the extent of various types of ice. -- Beland (talk) 18:19, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geographic features 

message: I've been working on an expansion with the intention of bringing this article to Good Article status. It's incomplete, but I'm going to post some of my progress now as part of WP:The Core Contest. The layout may change around a bit but I'll try not to leave the article in a disorganized state. – Reidgreg (talk) 15:29, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion