A ravine cuts into the Ordovician limestone cliffs of Akpatok Island, Nunavut, Canada.

The Inuit abandoned Akpatok Island, Nunavut, Canada, in 1900 and relocated to Kangirsuk on the Quebec mainland. Stories of cannibalism on early Akpatok persist to this day and one recent visitor reported finding many human skulls in a cave on the island.

Akpatok Island, Nunavut, Canada, is most famous for its seabird colonies. As much as nine percent of the North Atlantic thick-billed murre population nests here.

Tens of thousands of years ago glaciers flattened the top of Akpatok Island, Nunavut, Canada. Sheer cliffs from 40 to 300 meters surround the island.

Ice clogs the forbidding coastal cliffs of Akpatok Island, Nunavut, Canada.

The limestone terraces of Akpatok Island, Nunavut, Canada, are apparent on the island's northwest corner.

Akpatok Island, Nunavut, Canada, is named for seabirds which nest on ledges along the island's cliffs. Akpat is Inuktitut for thick-billed murre (Brünnich's Guillemot) and as many as 600,000 pairs have been reported there.

The wind catches this waterfall on Akpatok Island, Nunavut, Canada.

A waterfall tumbles hundreds of meters into the sea from the flat plateau on top of Akpatok Island, Nunavut, Canada.

Akpatok Island, Nunavut, Canada, lies at the northwestern entrance to Ungava Bay, 180 km south of Baffin Island across Hudson Strait.