Tag: baffin island
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Between wreckage and tundra, Lady Franklin Island keeps slow secrets
Named for grief, set in ice Few places carry so much nineteenth-century emotion into such a hard northern setting. Lady Franklin Island lies off the southeast coast of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada, facing the cold waters of Davis Strait and the mouths of Cumberland Sound. It is a small, steep-sided island of dark Arctic…