Akshayuk Pass - Akshayuk Akutinga is a 100 km long ice-free trough that cuts through the mountains between Cumberland Sound and Dais Strait. Glaciers once filled it and helped care out its deep U-shaped profile, characteristic of glacier-formed alleys. Along the coast, the glaciers have incised the alley floors below sea level, creating deep, narrow fjords with vertical walls up to 900 m high.

Akshayuk Pass contains textbook examples of the work of glaciers. You can see these throughout the pass. The sharp mountain ridges and peaks of the mountains lining the pass were created by small mountain glaciers called cirque or alpine glaciers. Some large cirque glaciers extend down onto the floor of the pass on the colder north side of the pass.

The history of the park dates back about 4000 years to the Pre-Dorset period when Siberian peoples crossed the Bering land-bridge into North America. For centuries these nomadic people traversed across the Arctic. The Thule, ancestors of the present-day Inuit, moved into the area after about 1200 AD. Stone walls of Thule houses can still be seven at some sites. There is evidence that the Thules may have met and traded with the Vikings between the 13th and 15th centuries when the Vikings traveled from Greenland to visit the shores of Baffin Island.