In June and July 2012 a strong team of international climbers comprised of Hansjörg Auer, Riky Felderer, Ben Lepesant, Matteo Mocellin, William Peterson, Eneko Pou and Iker Pou forged 4 new free ...

Madagascar comes in fourth as the largest island in Africa, off the southeast coast of the continent in the Indian Ocean at 226,658 square miles. Fifth is Baffin Island - it is one of three ...

In the Middle Ages, their tusks were mistaken for unicorn horns and were deemed so magical that Ivan the Terrible called for one on his deathbed – and even today, narwhal still retain a little ...

An international expedition of alpinists comprised of Nicolas Favresse, Sean Villanueva, Matteo Della Bordella, Matteo De Zaiacomo and Luca Schiera currently operating on Baffin Island have ...

But each year at the summer solstice they return, 17 million marine mammals making their way through Lancaster Sound across the top of Baffin Island. Admiralty Inlet, the fjord that clefts the ...

These remote national parks in the high Arctic of Nunavut's Baffin Island feature jagged, frosted mountain ranges, traditional Inuit villages, glacier-carved fjords, and vast, uninhabited tundra.

Over five weeks in the summer of 2021, Dr ... including numerous species rare on Baffin Island and two species previously only known from farther south in Canada: Lapland diapensia (Diapensia ...