10 Facts About Ellesmere Island

Arctic Cordillera mountain system covers much of Ellesmere Island, making it the most mountainous in the Arctic Archipelago.

Ellesmere Island is administered as part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

Ellesmere Island was named in 1852 by Edward Inglefield's expedition after the English politician Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere, who was President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1853 to 1855.

Ellesmere Island is separated to the east by Nares Strait from Greenland, to the west by Eureka Sound and Nansen Sound from Axel Heiberg Island, and to the south by Jones Sound and Cardigan Strait from Devon Island.

Ellesmere Island has a tundra climate and an ice cap climate with the temperature being cold year-round.

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Large portions of Ellesmere Island are covered with glaciers and ice, with Manson Icefield and Sydkap in the south; Prince of Wales Icefield and Agassiz Ice Cap along the central-east side of the island, and the Northern Ellesmere icefields .

Ellesmere Island is noted as being the northernmost occurrence of eusocial insects; specifically, the bumblebee Bombus polaris.

Ellesmere Island is the setting of much of Melanie McGrath's The Long Exile: A True Story of Deception and Survival Amongst the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic about the High Arctic relocation, and of her Edie Kiglatuk mystery series.

Ellesmere Island was the location for the 2014 BBC programme Snow Wolf Family and Me.

Ellesmere Island is a main location in Dan Brown's novel Deception Point.