Ukpik Peak is a

mountain A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher t ...

associated with the

Baffin Mountains The Baffin Mountains are a mountain range running along the northeastern coast of Baffin Island and Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada. The ice-capped mountains are part of the Arctic Cordillera and have some of the highest peaks of eastern North Amer ...

Baffin Island Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second-largest island in the Americas (behind Greenland), and the fifth-largest island in the world. Its area is (slightly smal ...

Nunavut Nunavut is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' and the Nunavut Land Claims Agr ...

, Canada.

Geography

Ukpik Peak is located at the southern end of the

Remote Peninsula The Remote Peninsula is a peninsula located on the eastern coast of Baffin Island. It is part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. The Inuit settlement of Pond Inlet is to the northwest and Clyde River is to the so ...

between the Stewart Valley and Sam Ford Fiord. At it is the twenty-eighth-highest peak in Nunavut and the eighth-highest peak in the territory by

topographic prominence In topography, prominence or relative height (also referred to as autonomous height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling ...

.Peaks In Nunavut
/ref> However, it is not as conspicuous as Sail Peaks rising to the northwest facing Stewart Valley.

References

External links

"Ukpik Peak, Nunavut" on ''Peakbagger''
Arctic Cordillera Mountains of Baffin Island One-thousanders of Nunavut {{QikiqtaalukNU-geo-stub