Satellite image of glaciers and icefields False-color image from
LANDSAT 1 satellite. Image E 1748-16544 shows the extent of
glaciers and icefields on Bylot Island and adjacent Baffin
Island (Pond Inlet to the east and Eclipse Sound to the west
separate the two islands; town of Pond Inlet is also indicated).
Light-colored areas along the coastline at the top of the image
represent areas dominated by vegetation-free cabonate debris
transported onshore by a major glacier that flowed down
Lancaster Sound north of Bylot Island and expanded as it emerged
into Baffin Bay during the last glacial maximum (Klassen, 1993;
and Klassen and Shilts, 1987). Most tundra flora on the island
are acidophilic and will not tolerate the alkalinity of the
soils on these carbonate-rich sediments. Labels on individual
glaciers are derived from Area 46201 on the Baffin Island Index
Map (Glacier Atlas of Canada, 1972). Image Available without
labels. Updated 03/29/2010 AW