Moodie Island
- Terra MODIS
- 06 June 2001
- 16:20 UTC
Moodie Island is one of the many small islands that are located along the highly fractured and indented eastern and
northern coasts of Baffin Island. The island is located on the southern side of Baffin Island's
Cumberland Sound, nestled tightly into the northern shore of the Hall Peninsula. In
the above low-resolution image, Moodie Island lies at the centre of the image. The steep-sided Littlecote Channel (on the west)
and Neptune Bay (on the east) separate it from the Baffin Island mainland.
At 233 km² in area, Moodie Island's irregular outline has a maximum north to south length of 31 km and a maximum width of 13 km. Deep channels on the eastern and northern coasts mean that all parts of the island are less than 5 km from the sea. Terrain within the interior is formed by several large hills that are separated from one another by low-lying saddles. Elevations are at their highest in the central sections of the island, reaching to around 650 m above sea level, where some permanent ice cover is found. Coastal slopes are steep around much of the island and are their steepest on the western side.
image: MODIS rapid response project at nasa/goddard space flight center.
