# tlohde

Qikiqtaq

Map titled: 'Qikiqtaq 69°10ʹN 57°25ʹW, Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada' The island is irregularly shaped, with several larger bays/inlets. The island is covered with many, many lakes. The lakes have been coloured in a variety of blues. In the top left is a small histogram showing the distribution of lake areas, on a logarithmic scale: with mode of 0.01 km^2. In the bottom left is a map showing where Qikiqtaq is in the Canadian Arctic, above the rest of North America and to the west of Greenland. A scale bar in the bottom right corner is 25 km wide, indicating that the whole island is ~200 km across at it's widest point. Some text in upper right reads: 'here, lakes cover ~24% of the island and there are ~46 lakes per person'.
Qikiqtaq: Qikiqtaq, also known as King William Island, in the Canadian Arctic, is home to a lot of lakes. Day 3: Polygons of the 2025 #30DayMapChallenge
projection UTM Zone 14N
tools Python libraries: osmnx (for getting data); geopandas for wrangling; matplotlib for plotting.
data OpenStreetMap contributors
font Recursive Sans & Mono, by Stephen Nixon, with Lisa Huang, Katja Schimmel. Rafał Buchner & Ben Kiel
comments Log-scale histograms aren't the most intuitive of things to interpret. And for that I'm sorry. Not colouring in the sea was a mistake; ditto shunning a graticule, as that would certainly help break up the whiteness. I feel the whole scene is missing some sort of texture.
date 03/11/2025