Located on Baffin Island's Cumberland Peninsula, Auyuittuq (ow-you-ee-tuk) Baffin Island National Park covers 19,500 square kilometers of rugged mountains, active glaciers, deep alleys, and spectacular fjords.

Millions of years of geologic history lie locked in the rocks and ice of Auyuittuq National Park. The separation of Baffin Island from Greenland, the buckling of bedrock into mountains by continental drift forces, the compression of accumulated snow into glaciers and the deepening of alleys by those moving glaciers, are all part of that history.