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Borderlands / Arctic Lowlands
The Arctic Lowlands lie between the Shield and the Innuitian Region. They include the Lancaster Plateau, Foxe Plain, Boothia Plain, Victoria Lowland and Shaler Mountains.
The surface of the Lancaster Plateau slopes gently southward from about 770 metres on southern Ellesmere Island, across central Devon Island, to an average elevation of 300 to 600 metres on Somerset Island and the Brodeur Peninsula of northwestern Baffin Island. The landscape is uniformed. Farther south, the surface descends still lower until it forms the surface of the Boothia Plain on both sides of the Gulf of Boothia.
Surrounding Foxe Basin, the landscape of the Foxe Plain is low and smooth. It forms a very shallow basin-like area on the old surface, partly covered by very shallow sea. Farther west, the Shaler Mountains rise through the Victoria Lowlands.
The following photographs show examples of the landscape from the Arctic Lowlands.
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Peninsula on Baffin Island, Nunavut
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Hall Beach on the Melville Peninsula, Nunavut
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Igloolik Island, Nunavut
The other physiographic regions that form the Borderlands are:
![[D]](http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/environment/land/physio_brodeur_peninsula.jpg/image_longdesc_view){kind=link}
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![[D]](http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/environment/land/physio_igloolik_island.jpg/image_longdesc_view){kind=link}
