Canada and Greenland
This eclipse begins some 130 miles (210 km) north of Thunder Bay, Ontario (see the map on page 49). Eclipse chasers selecting that region as their observing site might head to Polar Bear Provincial Park, which lies on Hudson Bay. From there, you’ll enjoy an unobstructed view (over water) to the north-northeast with the Sun 6° above the horizon. The duration of annularity along the center line will be 3 minutes 33 seconds.
Another vantage point is the northern coast of Akimiski Island in James Bay, Canada. While there, you could visit the Migratory Bird Sanctuary, which occupies the eastern two-thirds of the island. Tourists would sacrifice 10 to 12 seconds of annularity compared to Polar Bear Provincial Park, but they also might spot ringed seals, polar bears, and beluga whales. As the center line crosses the Belcher Islands, the duration of annularity increases a few seconds and the Sun’s mid-eclipse altitude climbs to 9°.
The antumbra next touches the mainland 30 miles (50 km) east of the village of Inukjuak, with 1,800 inhabitants, located at the mouth of Hudson Bay. It continues northward and reaches the Hudson Strait near the northernmost point of Quebec. At water’s edge, the Sun stands 15° high at mid-eclipse and annularity lasts 3 minutes 38 seconds. The shadow then crosses more than 800 miles (1,300 km) of Nunavut province. At the coastline of Baffin Bay, annularity begins around 6:19 a.m. EDT. It lasts 3 minutes 43 seconds, with the Sun nearly 21° high in the east and a perfect watery horizon below it. Unfortunately, weather prospects here are not good. In Canada’s boreal forest in June, cloud cover generally ranges from 50 to 60 percent at the beginning of the eclipse track to about 85 percent farther north.
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