Barbeau Peak

Barbeau Peak is a mountain located in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. Situated within the boundaries of Quttinirpaaq National Park on Ellesmere Island, it is the highest mountain in the region of Nunavut and Eastern North America. The first ascent was made by Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, a British geologist and glaciologist on the 5th June 1967. Ellesmere is known to the Inuit as ‘Quttinirpaaq’ and when translated it means “top of the world”, an apt name considering its location; only 800km from the geographic North Pole and approximately 100km from the North-west coast of Greenland. Ellesmere Island and Barbeau Peak bring a new meaning to the term remote.