Akshayuk Pass

Mount Thor

Mount Thor rising over the Akshayuk Pass valley in 1997

Akshayuk Pass (66°40′02″N 065°07′50″W / 66.66722°N 65.13056°W / 66.66722; -65.13056 (Akshayuk Pass)Coordinates: 66°40′02″N 065°07′50″W / 66.66722°N 65.13056°W / 66.66722; -65.13056 (Akshayuk Pass)), formerly called Pangnirtung Pass, is a 100 km (62 mi) long mountain pass along a spectacular valley through the southern Baffin Mountains, Nunavut, Canada. It contains Summit Lake, which is the highest point on the pass.

Akshayuk Pass is located in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island's Cumberland Peninsula.

Akshayuk Pass is an ancient riverbed that has eroded to its present size and shape providing a travel route through, and drainage for, glaciers that spill into the river valleys below.^[1]

References

↑ Auyuittuq National Park

Akshayuk Pass from the air, November 2014

Arctic Cordillera of Canada

Ranges	Adam Baffin Blackwelder Blue Boulder British Empire Bruce Byan Martin Challenger Conger Cunningham Douro Everett Garfield Geodetic Grinnell Grogan Morgan Haddington Hartz Inglefield Innuitian Jeffries Joy Krag Krieger Kaumajet Osborn Precipitous Prince of Wales Princess Margaret Sawtooth Selamiut Scoresby Stokes Swiss Thorndike Torngat Treuter United States Victoria and Albert White Triplets

Mountains	Angilaaq Angna Arrowhead Arthur Asgard Ayles Baldr Barbeau Bastille Battle Beaufort Biederbick Bishop's Mitre Brave Breidablik Caubvick Cirque Commonwealth Eugene Highpointer Innuit Kisimngiuqtuq Midnight Sun Nukap Odin Outlook Oxford Qiajivik Stokes Thor Thule Torngarsoak Ukpik Whisler White Crown

Passes	Akshayuk Ayr Bryant Cockscomb Eskimo Eureka Fortress Glacier Kingnait Perfection Pioneer Piper Polar Bear Revoir Singeyer Strand Fiord Sverdrup Van Hauen Yelverton

Glaciers	Agassiz Ice Cap Barnes Ice Cap Benedict Coronation Devon Ice Cap Disraeli Eugenie Gull Jimi Maasi Kaparoqtalik Keyhole Kiitarayuk Macculloch Narsarsuk Nuuksuq Oliver Parrish Penny Ice Cap Sermilik Sven Hedin Turnabout Utinatuk West Pioneer

Regions	Amund Ringnes Axel Heiberg Baffin Bathurst Bylot Coburg Cornwall Devon Ellef Ringnes Ellesmere Helena Île Vanier Labrador Lougheed Quebec

Communities	Alert Clyde River Eureka Grise Fiord Pangnirtung Pond Inlet Iqaluit Qikiqtarjuaq List of communities in Nunavut

Parks	Auyuittuq Quttinirpaaq Sirmilik Torngat Mountains

Mountain passes of Nunavut

Qikiqtaaluk Region	Akshayuk Ayr Cockscomb Eskimo Eureka Fortress Glacier Kingnait Perfection Pioneer Piper Polar Bear Revoir Singeyer Strand Fiord Sverdrup Van Hauen Yelverton

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