Nuvuttiq (''ᓄᕗᑦᑎᖅ'') formerly Cape Searle is an uninhabited

headland A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, John ...

located on

Qaqaluit Island Qaqulluit (Inuktitut syllabics: ''ᖃᖁᓪᓗᐃᑦ'' formerly Qaqaluit Island (meaning: "northern fulmar") is one of eastern Baffin Island's small, offshore, uninhabited islands, located in the Arctic Archipelago in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunav ...

's northeastern tip, in the

Qikiqtaaluk Region The Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtani Region (Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ ) or Baffin Region is the easternmost, northernmost, and southernmost administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. Qikiqtaaluk is the traditional Inuktitut name f ...

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, Canada. It was named by

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explorer John Ross on 17 September 1818 in honor of

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, Esq., then Chairman of the

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Geography

The habitat is characterized by coastal cliffs and rocky marine shores. It is in size, with an elevation rising up to

above sea level Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as ''orthometric heights''. The comb ...

Fauna

Cape Searle is home to the largest

northern fulmar The northern fulmar (''Fulmarus glacialis''), fulmar, or Arctic fulmar is a highly abundant seabird found primarily in subarctic regions of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. There has been one confirmed sighting in the Southern Hemis ...

colony in Canada.

Conservation

It is a Canadian

Important Bird Area An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations. IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...

(#NU003), an

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site and a Key Terrestrial Bird Habitat site.

References

Landforms of Baffin Island

Nuvuttiq Nuvuttiq (''ᓄᕗᑦᑎᖅ'') formerly Cape Searle is an uninhabited headland located on Qaqaluit Island's northeastern tip, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It was named by Arctic explorer John Ross on 17 September 1818 in honor ...

Important Bird Areas of Qikiqtaaluk Region Important Bird Areas of Arctic islands Seabird colonies {{Bird-stub