| 词条 | Ward Hunt Island |
| 释义 |
| name = Ward Hunt Island | image_name = Ward Hunt Island north.jpg | image_caption = | image_size = 200px | map_image = Quttinirpaaq National Park map-fr.png | native_name = | native_name_link = Inuktitut | nickname = | location = Northern Canada | coordinates = {{coord|83|04|47|N|074|08|17|W|region:CA-NU_type:isle_scale:1000000|display=inline,title|name=Ward Hunt Island}} | archipelago = Queen Elizabeth Islands | total_islands = | major_islands = | area_km2 = 13.9 | rank = | highest_mount = Walker Hill | elevation_m = 415 | country = Canada | country_admin_divisions_title = Territory | country_admin_divisions = Nunavut | country_admin_divisions_title_1 = Region | country_admin_divisions_1 = Qikiqtaaluk | population = Uninhabited | population_as_of = | density_km2 = | ethnic_groups = | additional_info = }} Ward Hunt Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Arctic Ocean, off the north coast of Ellesmere Island. Its northern cape is one of the northernmost elements of land in Canada. Only a 17 km stretch of northern coast of Ellesmere Island around Cape Columbia is more northerly. The island is {{convert|6.5|km|abbr=on}} long, east to west, and {{convert|3.3|km|abbr=on}} wide. The first known sighting was in 1876 by Pelham Aldrich, a lieutenant with the George Nares expedition, and named for George Ward Hunt, First Lord of the Admiralty at the time (1874-1877). HistoryWard Hunt Island was briefly used as a weather station during the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58, and since then it has been used as the starting point for a number of attempts to reach the North Pole, beginning with Ralph Plaisted in 1968. There is an airstrip,and a building on the north shore of the island. On July 29, 2008, a giant chunk of ice broke away from the shelf on Ward Hunt Island. The new ice island had an area of {{convert|35.9|km2|abbr=on}}. It was the largest fracture of its kind since the nearby Ayles Ice Shelf—which measured {{convert|66|km2|abbr=on}}—broke away in 2005.[1] In 1959, an American geologist, Paul T. Walker, put a note in a bottle and built a cairn over it near a glacier {{convert|800|km|abbr=on}} north of Grise Fiord, Nunavut. The note stated that the cairn was {{convert|1.2|m|abbr=on}} in front of a glacier, and left instructions to measure the distance again when the note was found. Researchers from Laval University found it in the summer of 2013. The distance by then was {{convert|101.5|m|abbr=on}}. At the time, few scientists were expecting glaciers to retreat.[2] In July 2016, a team of scientists with the Canadian Armed Forces while conducting a site visit of Eureka, Tanquary Fiord, and Ward Hunt Island found a cairn erected in 1975 by then Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, who had been accompanied by two of his sons, Justin Trudeau and Alexandre Trudeau. A picture of the plaque was presented to current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan on behalf of the Canadian Armed Forces.[3] References1. ^Arctic ice shelf collapse poses risk: expert {{Refbegin}}2. ^{{cite news |title=1959 message in a bottle a clue to glacier melt |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/1959-message-in-a-bottle-a-clue-to-glacier-melt-1.2465597 |accessdate=19 December 2013 |newspaper=CBC News |date=16 December 2013 }} 3. ^{{cite news |title=Discovery recalls Justin Trudeau's 1st visit to High Arctic — as a 3-year-old |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/arctic-cairn-ward-hunt-island-trudeau-1.4055558 |accessdate=5 April 2017 |newspaper=CBC News |date=4 April 2017 |last = McKie |first = David }}
| last = Nares | first = George | authorlink = George Nares | title = Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea in H.M. Ships 'Alert' and 'Discovery' | year = 1878 | publisher = Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington | location = London }}{{Refend}} External links
3 : Headlands of Qikiqtaaluk Region|Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region|Islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago |
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