Milne Inlet

Baffinland which has submitted plans to double—and eventually triple its production—has applied for the use of ice-breakers to keep the waters open for ten months, much to the concern of surrounding Inuit communities.

The NMCA covers an area of 108,000 km2 (42,000 sq mi) including the waters surrounding the marine portions of Sirmilik National Park, Nirjutiqavvik National Wildlife Area, Bylot Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary, and Prince Leopold Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary.

[7] The nearby hamlet of Mittimatalik —Pond Inlet, with a population of 1,617, which is 92% Inuit,[3] is the largest community in Northern Baffin Island.

[5] The Inuit in the area depend on a combination of wage income supplemented by traditional subsistence activities such as "including hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering.

It is a region of "ice caps, glaciers, icebergs, mountains, sand and sandstone hoodoos, pingos, and the "most diverse and largest avian communities in the Arctic."