Our Man Galin Kora is not someone who does things by halves. We're not saying he gets obsessed with his work; but he's been working for three months now on study of Axel Heiberg Island for the Government of Nunavut's Department of the Environment, investing its potential as a protected area. Among the Heibergian Trivia Galin has shared with us: 5. Axel Heiberg Island is the seventh largest island in Canada, and the third largest uninhabited island in the world. 4. It's actually the fifth island named after ol' Axel, an energetic Norwegian patron who sponsored the polar expeditions of Fridtjof Nansen and Otto Sverdrup, He got a glacier, as well. 3. About 27% of Axel Heiberg Island is covered by glacial ice, and most of it rests on rock dating back between 250 and 65 million years ago. 2. In spite of all that ice and rock, approximately 130 species of vascular plants and 30 bird species have been reported on the island, and it features three International Biological Program site. 1. However, the island isn't really known for its live plants and animal - but for for its dead ones. Axel Heiberg features one of the oldest, largest and best-preserved fossil forests in the world. of its kind in the world, dating back 45 million years. The site includes both plant and animal remains, with fossilized tree trunks more than six meters long and 2.5 meters wide, and the remains of rhinoceros-like creatures, soft-shelled turtles, alligators and a number of small mammals. If you want to know more, you're going to have to ask Galin.
Monday, March 28, 2011
5 Thrilling Factoids You Didn't Know About Axel Heiberg Island
Our Man Galin Kora is not someone who does things by halves. We're not saying he gets obsessed with his work; but he's been working for three months now on study of Axel Heiberg Island for the Government of Nunavut's Department of the Environment, investing its potential as a protected area. Among the Heibergian Trivia Galin has shared with us: 5. Axel Heiberg Island is the seventh largest island in Canada, and the third largest uninhabited island in the world. 4. It's actually the fifth island named after ol' Axel, an energetic Norwegian patron who sponsored the polar expeditions of Fridtjof Nansen and Otto Sverdrup, He got a glacier, as well. 3. About 27% of Axel Heiberg Island is covered by glacial ice, and most of it rests on rock dating back between 250 and 65 million years ago. 2. In spite of all that ice and rock, approximately 130 species of vascular plants and 30 bird species have been reported on the island, and it features three International Biological Program site. 1. However, the island isn't really known for its live plants and animal - but for for its dead ones. Axel Heiberg features one of the oldest, largest and best-preserved fossil forests in the world. of its kind in the world, dating back 45 million years. The site includes both plant and animal remains, with fossilized tree trunks more than six meters long and 2.5 meters wide, and the remains of rhinoceros-like creatures, soft-shelled turtles, alligators and a number of small mammals. If you want to know more, you're going to have to ask Galin.
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