Axel Heiberg

[ ak-suhl hahy-burg ]

noun

1. the largest island belonging to the Sverdrup group in the Canadian Northwest Territories. 15,779 sq. mi. (40,868 sq. km).

Example Sentences

We know these major lineages arose early in oak evolution because one of the oldest American oak fossils is a 45-million-year-old white oak from Axel Heiberg Island in Nunavut, Canada, that can be distinguished from the red oaks and all other major lineages of oaks.

From Scientific American

Chiang, who is now at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, is also travelling to a new site, Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian Arctic.

From Nature

Since 1990, the magnetic North Pole has migrated almost nine hundred miles, from Axel Heiberg Island, in the high Canadian Arctic, to a site close to the true North Pole.

From The New Yorker

Now researchers report that they've found a new strain of methane-eating microbes in soil samples from Axel Heiberg Island, in the Canadian high Arctic.

From Scientific American

Most Arctic permafrost—87 percent—is actually carbon-poor, minerally stuff like the soil on Axel Heiberg Island.

From Scientific American