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art-h-ropod.bsky.social
A highlight of my many years of fieldwork in northern #Canada 🇨🇦 -- multiple opportunities to observe these magnificent animals across a range of summer habitats. #InternationalPolarBearDay #PolarBearDay #HudsonBay #JamesBay #Manitoba #Akimiski #Nunavut
February 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
hellabarnes.bsky.social
akimiski island is leftover from tampa bay
June 9, 2024 at 2:53 AM
pomarede.bsky.social
Your Name In Landsat

D. Akimiski Island, Canada
A. Lake Mjøsa, Norway
N. São Miguel do Araguaia, Brazil
I. Canandaigua Lake, New York
E. Bellona Plateau
L. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam... 🧪🔭
Six colorful satellite images where some features look like alphabetical letters, namely D, A, N, I, E, L
April 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
darkwaterphotos.bsky.social
Here is a wild piece of Canadian trivia: none of the islands inside James Bay or Hudson Bay belong to Ontario or Quebec. 😮

Every single island, even Akimiski Island, which sits just a few kilometres off Ontario's coast, is politically part of the territory of Nunavut.🤔
July 18, 2026 at 1:32 AM
marleywrites.bsky.social
Akimiski Island, Nunavut, Canada. I don't know if it's actually haunted, but I think at the right time of year I'd feel that, there.

#HorrorWritersChat
chaoticauthor.online Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · Sep 4
#HorrorWritersChat question 3:

If you could spend a night in a real haunted place and stay up all night writing a story based there, where would it be?

P.S. Don’t forget the tag!
Image shows two crows on a fence. All text is in the post.
September 4, 2024 at 6:48 PM
art-h-ropod.bsky.social
Compound #eye opener for #TrilobiteTuesday! Nice examples of the #holochroal eye condition in 2 diff #trilobite groups. 100's of tiny calcitic lenses packed together & sharing (in life) a continuous calcite corneal cover. Meroperix (L) - a styginid & Chiozoon (R) - a cheirurid. #Silurian (~430 MYA)
Close-up B&W photo of the kidney-shaped compound eye on an isolated left free cheek of the small styginid trilobite, Meroperix aquilonaris. The strongly curved and convex eye surface contains hundreds of tiny individual, calcitic lenses in a close-packing arrangement. Field of view approximately 25 mm across. Attawapiskat Fm, Akimiski Is, Nunavut 🇨🇦 A B&W photo of a right lateral view of a complete, but partly exfoliated, cephalon of the cheirurid trilobite, Chiozoon umisk. The small, bulbous holochroal right eye is located mid-field on the pitted free cheek, just ahead of a sharp curve in the proparian facial suture. The eye comprises hundreds of very small lenses closely packed together across the strongly curved surface. Field of view approximately 40 mm across. Attawapiskat Fm, Akimiski Is, Nunavut 🇨🇦
May 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
art-h-ropod.bsky.social
Coming in late for #FossilFriday with a lovely little early #Silurian (~436 MYA) spirifirid #brachiopod, Meristina obtusa. Interior view of dorsal valve showing preserved spiralia on left & partial drusy quartz cement infill. Width of valve = 24 mm. Attawapiskat Fm, #Akimiski Is, #Nunavut 🇨🇦
A view into the interior of a well-preserved brachiopod dorsal valve. The shell remained sediment-free after burial, but was secondarily coated on the inside by tiny quartz crystals. The delicate spiralled lophophore supports (spiralia) have also been "silicified" -- best seen on the left in this image. The valve is 24 mm (just under 1 inch) in width.
May 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
hellabarnes.bsky.social
I looked up Akimiski Island, a piece of land 80% of the size of Rhode Island, on iNaturalist.

It has maybe 20 observations, mostly by three guys
hellabarnes.bsky.social Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · Jun 9
akimiski island is leftover from tampa bay
June 10, 2024 at 12:02 AM
huubeggen.bsky.social
Great shot of Akimiski Island in James Bay, Canada, taken by astronaut Jessica Meir from space station #ISS on 2 June 2026. Original eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... @daveatcogs.bsky.social @elisabethkosters.bsky.social
The image shows a dark roughly triangular island with ice on its right side, sediment laden water on its left, and dark land on the left side of the image.
June 11, 2026 at 5:37 PM
chadkoh.com
C - Deception Island, Antarctica
H - São Miguel do Araguaia, Brazil
A - Lake Guakhmaz, Azerbaijan
D - Akimiski Island, Canada
K - Golmund, China
O - Crater Lake, Oregon
H - Southwestern Kyrgyzstan
chadkoh spelled out in landsat images
August 31, 2024 at 3:56 AM
art-h-ropod.bsky.social
I'm using #InternationalPolarBearDay as temporary relief from all the rest of the shit going down. Here's some random stuff from fieldwork around #Churchill, MB, Akimiski Is, NU, and Canada Post 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
February 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
srtapozo.bsky.social
Estoy ♥️
Pone Desiree con paisajes vistos desde satélite, el primero es de Akimiski Island, en Canadá, y forma lo que parece una D
February 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
andrew-m-davidson.bsky.social
I remember seeing a photo of what a bear did to a helicopter at Akimiski Island...
December 14, 2024 at 1:59 AM
robbpettit.bsky.social
Tonight I learned Akimiski Island way down in James Bay is part of Nunavut
Map of the Nunavut federal riding
April 29, 2025 at 3:56 AM
izique.bsky.social
Trem do seu nome soletrado em imagens do Landsat

Pra facilitar, deixo o site aqui:

landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
Seis imagens distintas feitas pelo satélite Landsat, lado a lado, cada uma formando mais ou menos uma letra do meu nome (Daniel) Obtidas pelo site abaixo: https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNameInLandsat-main/index.html Deixo as localizações abaixo, informação do mesmo site 1 D Akimiski Island, Canada 53°00'58.5 N 81°18'24.6 W 2 A Hickman, Kentucky 36°35'20.8 N 89°20'26.9 W 3 N São Miguel do Araguaia, Brazil 12°56'44.3 S 50°29'42.0 W 4 I Conesus Lake, New York 42°47'11.0 N 77°42'58.1 W 5 E Sea of Okhotsk 54°42'50.3 N 136°34'20.4 E 6 L Xingjiang, China 40°04'02.8 N 77°40'00.7 E
September 2, 2024 at 6:27 PM
tolstoi.bsky.social
Japacani, bolivia
Lake Guakhmaz, Azerbaijan
Akimiski Island, Canada
Djebrl Ouarkziz, Marocco
Japacani, Bolivia
Sea of Okhotsk
September 18, 2024 at 11:26 AM
hey-nunya-business.bsky.social
I was nearly pulled from my deployment last summer due to major concern about heat injury. I was required to turn my camera on with a daily call with my boss so that they could assess how flushed I was.

I was here. I am not joking. I wish I was.
A map of Akimiski Island, Nunavut View over the sub-arctic wetlands.
June 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
tsbcanada-mirror.bsky.social
#TSBAir released its investigation report (A24O0048) on the April 2024 fatal accident during ground handling operations on Akimiski Island, Nunavut.

Find out what happened: ow.ly/JZwB50UXPU5

#AviationSafety #Media
February 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
hey-nunya-business.bsky.social
That's amazing! I love it up here, I'm on the James Bay in Northeastern Ontario, pretty much straddling the Treaty 9 region of Ontario/Qikiqtaaluk Region of NVT, on the arctic/subarctic line. The plan this summer is rafting to Akimiski Island via giant floating dinosaur. Mostly because I work
March 20, 2026 at 8:50 PM
hey-nunya-business.bsky.social
...because they're really aggressive. The size of a polar bear and the prickliness of a grizzly is not something to fool around with.

It's only happened twice, but that was two times too many.

I'm here, for reference 🧡
A map of the James Bay Coast of Canada, with a closeup of Akimiski Island NVT.
October 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
fawndolyn.bsky.social
Loving this site that shows your name in landmarks. Thanks, NASA!! Hovering also tells you the location of each site. The D and O in Fawndolyn are stunning! All of it's stunning! I wish they had more Ns.
science.nasa.gov/specials/you...
F in Kruger Nat'l Park, South Africa; A in Yukon Delta, Alaska; W in Ponoy River, Russia; N in São Miguel do Araguaia, Brazil Surprising no one, the full first name is mostly Canadian. F: Mato Grosso, Brazil; A: Lake Mjøsa, Norway; W: La Primavera, Columbia; N: Yapacani, Bolivia; D: Akimiski Island, Canada; O: Manicouagan Reservoir, Canada; L: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; Y: Ramsay, New Zealand; N: São Miguel do Araguaia, Brazil
April 28, 2026 at 1:35 PM
hey-nunya-business.bsky.social
...animals on the premises that you weren't using?"

They're rare up here on the James Bay Coast, but back home I don't wake up one single morning without fresh coyote prints in my yard. And I live in a small city, not rural.

Both places are in Ontario. Home near the MI border and work near here:
A map of Akimiski Island NVT
June 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
wendel.scardua.net
O nome "Wendel" soletrado usando 6 diferentes fotos de satélite de lugares diferentes do mundo que parecem exibir essas letras: W: La Primavera, Columbia 5°26'57.9 N 69°47'57.0 W E: Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier, Iceland 64°05'45.0 N 16°21'45.6 W N: Yapacani, Bolivia 17°18'29.7 S 63°53'19.0 W D: Akimiski Island, Canada 53°00'58.5 N 81°18'24.6 W E: Sea of Okhotsk 54°42'50.3 N 136°34'20.4 E L: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada 50°12'41.3 N 104°43'38.1 W
April 30, 2026 at 3:14 PM
art-h-ropod.bsky.social
My last #Strataday featured exhumed 3D #Silurian (~435 MYA) Attawapiskat Fm reefs in n. #Ontario - this week we see the same unit in very different context. On Akimiski Is. in #HudsonBay the reef structures have been glacially scoured leaving only remnants - but incredibly #fossiliferous! #Nunavut 🇨🇦
An aerial view looking north across Houston Point, a low headland, and towards the dark blue open waters of Hudson Bay. The headland is nearly flat and almost devoid of vegetation. The tide is near high stand, flooding a broad expanse of rock-strewn shallows to the east, with a series of arcuate beach ridges framing the headland. Towards the centre of the headland low patches of pale rock are exposed, marking the remnants of ancient reef structures that have been almost completely removed by glaciation. Over Houston Point, looking almost vertically down through an open helicopter window at a rocky exposure (seen at low tide) that is made up of roughly concentric ridges in an irregular bull's eye pattern. This is a "Philip structure" which marks the sagging of strata beneath the overlying load of a reef body which has subsequently been removed. The whole structure is about 150 metres across. A lower level oblique view at Houston Point, looking across a Philip structure at ebbing tide with the open waters of Hudson Bay in the background. Irregularly concentric ridges are seen in the foreground, marking the edges of beds dipping gently towards the centre, where a portion of the deeply eroded reef core still remains. A close-up view of the exposed Attawapiskat Formation at Houston Point. The white limestone is essentially a coquina made up of the undeformed shells of a large brachiopod -- Pentameroides septentrionalis. These formed extensive banks flanking the large reefs which have been removed by glacial action. Fragments of tabulate corals eroded from reefs are also present. The head of the geological hammer in the lower part of the image is about 18 cm long.
May 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
huubeggen.bsky.social
Impressive views from orbit of #Manitoba wildfires smoke bands, taken by astronaut Nichole Ayers from space station #ISS on 31 May 2025. For more see alt text. Originals eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... and eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... @daveatcogs.bsky.social @elisabethkosters.bsky.social
In this image the view is west from over southeastern Ontario. At left a docked Soyuz capsule is visible. Just below and to the right is Manitoulin island, Ontario. White clouds at bottom. A broad dense band of smoke crosses the centre of the image from left to right. After some clear sky more smoke is visible towards the curved horizon of earth at top in the image. The image shows a view from over Quebec province, Canada towards northwest, over James Bay where the ice has partly melted. Belcher Islands above centre. Akimiski island at entre left. A lot of clouds in the lowerpart of the image. The upper left of the image shows part of a solar panel of the space station with a dense band of smoke from centre left (just under the lower tip of the panel) towards the horizon in the upper centre of the image. By the time this image was taken the smoke had already spread afar as northwestern Europe where I noticed a very pale sky which otherwise in the local sunny weather would have been blue.
June 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM