Igloolik Island, Nunavut

This photograph, taken in late summer on Igloolik Island in Nunavut, shows low mounds on a raised beach (on which the geologists are walking) where sod-and-whalebone houses of the Thule aboriginal culture are located.

Source: Geological Survey of Canada, photograph number 2002-562. Reproduced with the permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada, 2005 and courtesy of Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada.