Slight rocky ridges run generally along its length, and the coast has low cliffs in places.

[2] Grasses, mosses and Arctic flowering plants are abundant, but there are no trees excepting occasional dwarf willows.

While there are few land animals, birds are numerous; a variety of waterbirds and waders frequent the marshes and lakes.

The island regularly supports significant populations of bean, barnacle and greater white-fronted geese, tundra swans, long-tailed ducks, goosanders, snowy owls and peregrine falcons.

[4] The island's surrounding seas are home to many marine mammals such as walruses, seals and endangered whales.