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Borderlands / Innuitian Region
The Innuitian Region is characterized by two zones of mountains that are separated by extensive and discontinuous terrain of more subdued topography formed by plateaus, uplands and lowlands.
The mountain ranges include the Grantland, the Axel Heiberg, and the Victoria and Albert mountains. On central Axel Heiberg Island and northwestern Ellesmere Island, the mountains are nearly buried by ice sheets through which the peaks project as a row of nunataks. Between these two large mountainous zones lies the Eureka Upland. To the south are the Perry Plateau and the Sverdrup Lowlands, a region of low relief, rolling, and scarped lowland.
The following photographs show examples of landscape found in the Innuitian Region.
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Svendsen Peninsula of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
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Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut
The other physiographic regions that form the Borderlands are:
![[D]](http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/environment/land/physio_svendsen_peninsula.jpg/image_longdesc_view){kind=link}
![[D]](http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/environment/land/physio_axel_heiberg_island.jpg/image_longdesc_view){kind=link}
