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Marble Island

Marble Island

Rankin Inlet, Nunavut
http://www.marbleisland.ca/

Marble Island is one of several uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada, located within western Hudson Bay. The closest community is Rankin Inlet. During the age of sail, this island was valued as a harbour for overwintering in the Arctic Ocean. Currently, it is a sacred site of the Inuit: modern visitors are expected to crawl ashore, or die exactly a year later.

Photo Credit: Exterior view of Marble Island. Taken By Doug McLarty and available on http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=7102.

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Eventually, severe weather conditions took its toll on whalers. True or False: Today, many of their graves can still be seen on the Island.

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Eventually, severe weather conditions took its toll on whalers. True or False: Today, many of their graves can still be seen on the Island.

False True

Marble Island is one of several uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada, located within western Hudson Bay. The closest community is Rankin Inlet. During the age of sail, this island was valued as a harbour for overwintering in the Arctic Ocean. Currently, it is a sacred site of the Inuit: modern visitors are expected to crawl ashore, or die exactly a year later.

Rankin Inlet, Nunavut
http://www.marbleisland.ca/
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Photo: Exterior view of Marble Island. Taken By Doug McLarty and available on http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=7102.

How does this place make you feel?
amazed frustrated surprised reflective sad guilty lonely calm fearful appreciative empathetic exhilarated curious inspired happy secure