The region consists of Baffin Island, the Belcher Islands, Akimiski Island, Mansel Island, Prince Charles Island, Bylot Island, Devon Island, Cornwallis Island, Bathurst Island, Amund Ringnes Island, Ellef Ringnes Island, Axel Heiberg Island, Ellesmere Island, the Melville Peninsula, the eastern part of Melville Island, and the northern parts of Prince of Wales Island, and Somerset Island, plus smaller islands in between.

Between 1899 to 1902, he overwintered three more times on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic with the Fram, continuing to explore and map, culminating in the discovery of the islands to the west of Ellesmere Island, namely Axel Heiberg, Amund Ringnes and Ellef Ringnes, collectively known as the Sverdrup Islands.

" Late Wisconsinan Glaciation of Amund and Ellef Ringnes Islands, Nunavut: Evidence for the Configuration, Dynamics, and Deglacial Chronology of the Northwest Sector of the Innuitian Ice Sheet ".

The main islands of the group are Axel Heiberg Island, Ellef Ringnes Island, Amund Ringnes Island, Cornwall Island, Graham Island, Meighen Island, King Christian Island, Stor Island, and the archipelago also includes a number of smaller islands in the surrounding waters.

They also sponsored explorer Otto Sverdrup's 1898 – 1902 Fram expedition ; as a compensation Sverdrup named two discovered islands after them: Ellef Ringnes Island and Amund Ringnes Island.

The explorer Otto Sverdrup's 1898 – 1902 Fram expedition also received financial support from the two brothers ; he named two discovered islands after them: Amund Ringnes Island and Ellef Ringnes Island.

Hassel Sound separates Amund Ringnes Island from Ellef Ringnes Island.

Late Wisconsinan Glacial and Relative Sea Level History of Amund and Ellef Ringnes Islands, Nunavut, Canada.

* Hodgson, D. A. Surficial Materials and Geomorphological Processes, Western Sverdrup and Adjacent Islands, District of Franklin ( Including Amund Ringnes, Southern Ellef Ringnes, Cornwall, Graham and King Christian Islands ).

* Hopkins, W. S. Some Spores and Pollen from the Christopher Formation ( Albian ) of Ellef and Amund Ringnes Island, and Northwestern Melville Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

* Hassel Sound — strait between Amund Ringnes Island and Ellef Ringnes Island in northern Canada

it is located on the western shore of Ellef Ringnes Island in the Sverdrup Islands, in the territory of Nunavut in Canada.

NASA Landsat photo of Ellef Ringnes Island

Ellef Ringnes Island is one of the Sverdrup Islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.

The island was named by Otto Sverdrup for Oslo brewer Ellef Ringnes, one of the sponsors of his expedition.

Ellef Ringnes Island was the last landmass to be visited by the Earth's wandering Magnetic North Pole.

They determined that the average position of the North Magnetic Pole in 1994 was located on the Noice Peninsula, southwest Ellef Ringnes Island, at 78. 3 ° N, 104. 0 ° W. The pole shifted from the island that year and now lies some 250 miles ( 400 km ) to the NNW.

The first known sighting of Ellef Ringnes Island was in 1901 by a sledging party consisting of Gunerius Isachsen and Sverre Hassel.

The island was named to honour Ellef Ringnes, a one of the principal patrons of the expedition.

At the time of the discovery of Ellef Ringnes Island, the expedition was based at Goose Fiord on the south coast of Ellesmere Island.

Isachsen and Hassel made their initial sighting of Ellef Ringnes Island on

In the course of the following 20 days, they succeeded in circumnavigating Ellef Ringnes.

Ellef Ringnes Island is interesting to biologists because of its extremely rigorous arctic environment and its resulting meager flora and fauna.

Stefansson ( 1921 ), on visiting Ellef Ringnes in June 1916, wrote “ I did not see a blade of grass and the district struck me as the most barren I had even seen ”; MacDonald ( 1961 ) who spent the field season of 1954 at Isachsen, stated, “ My immediate impression of Isachsen was of a region of utter desolation ”.

Accordingly, Ellef Ringnes probably supports fewer forms of life than any other ice-free arctic land mass of comparable size ( 5, 000 sq.

" The Physical and Chemical Limnology of 24 Ponds and One Lake from Isachsen, Ellef Ringnes Island, Canadian High Arctic ".

* Lea, Brian N. Oceanographic Observations Near Cape Macmillan, Ellef Ringnes Island, N. W. T.

* Saville, D. B. O. Bird and Mammal Observations on Ellef Ringnes Island in 1960.

* Stott, Donald F. Ellef Ringnes Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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From 1896 to 1906, Ellef Ringnes was a member of the board of the Holmenkolbanen light rail company, which built and operated the Holmenkollen Line.

In 1896, his brother Ellef bought the Ringnes farm from him, which he earlier had inherited from his father.

In 1876, he founded Ringnes & Compani brewery with his brother Ellef Ringnes and the businessman Axel Heiberg.

* A pack of 10 Amaroks appeared in the The Secret Saturdays episode " The Ice Caverns of Ellef Ringnes " with their vocal effects done by Fred Tatasciore.

The only habitated place was Isachsen, a formerly manned weather station, 1948 through 1978, on Ellef Ringnes Island and McGill Arctic Research Station on Axel Heiberg Island ( a research station occupied during the summer ).

It lies east of Ellef Ringnes Island, west of Axel Heiberg Island.

* Balkwill, H. R. Geology of Amund Ringnes, Cornwall, and Haig-Thomas Islands, District of Franklin.

* Massey Sound between Amund Ringnes Island and Axel Heiberg Island in Nunavut

Also a member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and Canadian Arctic Archipelago, it is located in the Arctic Ocean, east of Borden Island, and west of Amund Ringnes Island.

April 23 as they rounded the southwest corner of Amund Ringnes Island, an island they had sighted and partly explored the previous year.

Together with Amund Ringnes, Borden, Brock, King Christian, Lougheed, Mackenzie King and Meighen Islands ( the so-called northwestern

In 1876, he founded Ringnes & Compani brewery with his brother Amund Ringnes and the businessman Axel Heiberg.

In the same year, he bought Ringnes farm from his brother Amund, who earlier had inherited it from his father.

Amund Ringnes ( 1901 )

Amund Ringnes ( 7 October 1840 – 13 January 1907 ) was a Norwegian businessman, brewery owner and patron.

The Ringnes brewery became successful, and Amund Ringnes and his brother became benefactors in Christiania.

Amund Ringnes was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1898.