Auyuittuq National Park
Climate Change Affecting Auyuittuq National Park.
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Auyuittuq Park was established in 1976 and is located in Nunavut Territories specifically Baffin Island's Cumberland Peninsula, Qikiqtaaluk Region in Nunavut. Auyuittuq National Park is 19,700km2 in size.
Auyuittuq park has a variety of features that is mostly why this park is one of the most famous parks in all of Nunavut.
Features include:
.Sweeping glaciers
.Polar sea ice
.Jagged granite mountains
.An Inuktitut word(Auyuittuq) means "land that never melts" never melting ice
.Protects 19,089 km2 of glacier terrain
. The park contains one of the highest peaks in the Canadian Shield.
.Penny ice caps
.Marine shorelines along coastal fjords
.This park offers unique opportunities to experience a very magical Arctic park.
Auyuittuq National Park activities
- Akshayuk is the most one of the best place to hike in all of Auyuittuq National Park. Unfortunately, there isn't any present trails for skiing but numerous backpacking and hiking routes for you and your family to get away and explore. That isn't it! You can go skiing, glacier travel,climbing expeditions,dog sledding expeditions,snowmobile tours,boat trips and community visits and a thousands more! What are you waiting for! the sooner the better!
Auyuittuq National Park wildlife
But, unfortunately there is less numbers of species of wildlife in the arctic ecosystems as compared to southern ecosystems, good examples of species in arctic ecosystems, are pods of whales and colonies of sea birds, and herds of Caribou. Most of these animals also migrate. This enables them to take advantage of other land-forms goods like feeding grounds, etc. And good nesting areas.
loss of habitat due to global warming
Since 1880, the average temperature has risen by 1.4-Fahrenheit degrees.
The last two decades of the 20th century have been hottest in the last 400 years, according to climate studies.
The 19,000 sq km Auyuittuq National Park is located on the islands northeast coast has recently experienced " RECORD BREAKING" Warmth and crazy amounts of rain.
spokeswomen Pauline Scott said on Thursday.
"This summer's events are beyond anything we're used to"
Scot said from Iqaluit :
"THIS IS NO DOUBT A RESULT OF CLIMATE CHANGE!"
How to Get Here
Hope We See You There!
Supported by " Parks Canada
Email: zaid3421@gmail.com
Website: www.pc.gc.ca
Location: Baffin Island, Baffin, Unorganized, NU, Canada
Phone: (867-473-2500)
Predicted Temperatures And precipitation
It also has really short days(mainly winter) summer is very short and cool temperatures.
Auyuittuq also has very strong winds.
And very high latitude location of Auyuittuq, major air masses, and pressure systems.
Local weather patterns are affected by ruggedness of the mountains normally scatter storm systems and cause formation and precipitation.
For more information, check out the weather network:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/outdoors/parks/canu0004
Predicted Temperatures And Precipitation
Global Warming effects the climate by making it warmer year-round and increasing precipitation.
1.)Winter and spring warming between 3 and 10 degrees Celsius will (unfortunately) lead to earlier melting in spring.
Fall ice formation,longer ice free seasons on lakes and rivers, on sea,their is also changes in permafrost layers. More precipitation in winter will lead to wet snow and ice accumulation.
2.)Increases in summer precipitation may lead to more cloudy conditions, with low solar radiation.
Increased iceberg calving and warmer summer air conditions may induce more coastal fog and melting may lower salinity in surface waters of Fjords.
3.)Water levels of the rivers and lakes in ANP may also increase due to the increased volume of spring melt, summer glacier melt, and summer precipitation
Spring flows also occur slightly earlier in the year in the year(june-instead of july) These may lead to increased flooding and erosion.
That's it!
Hope to see you at Auyittuq National park. And remember to take care of wildlife and prevent global warming.
Zaid Omar