Jens Munk Island
- Terra MODIS
- 01 August 2002
- 16:20 UTC
At 920 km² in area, Jens Munk is among the larger of the innumerable minor islands that surround
Baffin Island. The island is located at the northern edge of the Foxe Basin and forms the southern boundary to Baffin
Island's Murray Maxwell Bay. The western end of the island is separated from the long Siorarsuk Peninsula of Baffin Island
by the 2.5 km wide South Passage. To the southeast lies Koch Island.
Jens Munk Island measures 57 km from east to west, with a maximum north to south width of 35 km. The irregular shape of the island, however, means that typical widths range from 7 km to 19 km. Like all the islands of the northern Foxe Basin region — and of western Baffin Island — the terrain is low-lying: elevations in the eastern sector rarely exceed 20 m above sea level; highest elevations are found in the southwest (opposite the narrow Skeoch Bay) where an elevated peninsula reaches 125 m above sea level.
Opposite Skeoch Bay a number of small islands extend to the south; these include the Calthorpe Islands and Tangle Island.
image: MODIS rapid response project at nasa/goddard space flight center.
