Talk:Axel Heiberg Island

Question
"rhinoceros-like creatures, soft-shelled turtles, alligators and host of small mammals..."

Are all of these animals capable of hibernation?


 * No, but as the same paragraph explains, the island was nice and warm in the past, so they didn't need to. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 22:13, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I work for Basinger.
I'm trying to identify some Juglandaceae fruit he gathered at Axel Heiberg. Looks like hickory, and some may be walnuts.

And yeah, for 30 million year old nuts, they're *very* well preserved. Most are flattened by their burial, but they're not mineralized, and you can pop the two nut valves apart like you can with nuts that exist today.


 * Any photos of the trees or nuts? Fig (talk) 13:11, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Petrified trees
The sediments, are they from the impact of Hudson Bay meteorite? I think it was like 13,000 years ago that made rippled effect of bedrock eskers on the western coast of Hudson Bay, and the ejecta reached Alaska, Western NWT, this island, Axel Heiberg Island, burying everything at the same time. This would explain the rapid erosion of coastal areas of Tuktoyaktok, NWT, and Alaska. The sand would be grayish/whitish, in color, like marine sediments. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arviatlands (talk • contribs) 18:27, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

POV tag
I ahve tagged the article as POV mainly for the fact that its seems to be a copy past from some other source. I dont know if it is but the text seems suspicious at this point, and rather negative when discussing human impact. -- Kev min  § 04:45, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I have editted the section on human impact since it was not neutral and not referenced. It was also written about 10 years ago. The updated information is (I think) neutral and referenced.  So I am removing the POV tag.  Gierszep (talk) 03:51, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

White Glacier discussion
The previous version had an extensive and very technical discussion of White Glacier. I think this was too detailed for this article; also it appeared to have been directly copied from some other unreferenced text (eg. references to figures that were not included here). I have kept the main points and a selection of references, with emphasis on a range of authors and journal articles, rather than hard-to-find internal documents or conference proceedings. Gierszep (talk) 04:05, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Wikify tag
With the above changes to provide neutral tone and with added and publicly available references, and general improvement in the text including links to other Wiki articles, I am removing the Wikify tag. Gierszep (talk) 04:05, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

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Largest uninhabited place?
Is this the largest uninhabited island in the world? Fig (talk) 13:10, 22 July 2018 (UTC)