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Containing about 20 Iraqi families two weeks ago, the refugee camp has now swollen to hold about 15,000 people, reports the BBC's Paul Wood
Britain has welcomed a UN resolution designed to weaken Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.
The United Nations Security Council gave unanimous approval to the document, which was drawn up by the UK.
It backed sanctions on individuals recruiting, financing, supplying weapons, or fighting for Islamic State and linked groups.
The UK Ministry of Defence has revealed that its Joint Rivet surveillance aircraft has been operating in Iraq.
The Security Council, meeting in New York on Friday, also made six people associated with Islamic State (IS) or the Syria-based Nusra Front subject to an international travel ban, asset freeze and arms embargo. An IS spokesman is among the six.
UK ambassador to the UN Sir Mark Lyall Grant said the unanimous Security Council vote sent a "clear political message" that the world was acting to tackle the IS threat.
'Immense courage'The militants' rise has seen an estimated 1.2 million people driven from their homes, prompting the UN to declare its highest level of emergency in the country.
British aid planes carrying cooking equipment for 40,000 refugees arrived in Irbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, earlier.
Almost 8,000 sets including cutlery, plates and frying pans will be distributed by the UN to people in the Dahuk region displaced by violence.
International Development Secretary Justine Greening said: "They have shown immense courage... and the UK is committed to giving them support.
"These kitchen sets will enable displaced people to feed themselves and their families."
End Quote Rory Stewart Chairman, Commons defence committeeIsis are a seriously bad force and anything that we can do to protect populations and contain their expansion we ought to"
Sir Mark said the UN resolution would not immediately curb IS in Iraq and Syria but it was an important first step.
"The council has taken a firm and united response," he said at the Security Council, which is currently chaired by Britain.
"This resolution provides an additional framework for a longer-term and strategic international response to the threat.
"In particular, it sends a clear political message that the international community utterly condemns [Islamic State's] brutal and mindless terrorist acts, rejects its extremist terrorist ideology and is united in its resolve to oppose and confront it.
"It contains measures to choke off recruitment and target the growing phenomenon of foreign terrorist fighters.
"It tackles the financing of terrorism, calling on all member states to cease immediately all trade and material support that enables Isil and other terrorist groups to function."
BBC UN correspondent Nick Bryant said the resolution's unanimous adoption indicated the widespread alarm across the international community about the rapid and murderous rise of IS.
Speaking ahead of the UN vote Rory Stewart MP, chairman of the Commons defence committee, said the violence in Iraq felt "like the beginnings of a civil war".
"We need far more information; I don't personally feel we have enough diplomats on the ground who really understand who Isis are and what's going on," Mr Stewart, former deputy governor of an Iraqi province, told Channel 4 News.
"But we also need to accept that in the end Isis are a seriously bad force and anything that we can do to protect populations and contain their expansion we ought to."
At an emergency EU meeting in Brussels on Friday, the 28 member states were left to decide individually whether they would arm Iraq's Kurds, the main opponent of IS in the north.
The UK, which has already been transporting weapons provided by other countries, said it would "consider favourably" any request by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters for arms.
France and the US have already supplied arms to the Iraqi Kurds.
The Ministry Defence said Britain's one Joint Rivet reconnaissance plane had been operating in the region for the last few weeks, helping to "build an understanding of the humanitarian situation... and the associated ISIL threat".
"The intelligence and insight it has provided has guided our humanitarian efforts giving us an accurate picture of what is going on the ground so that we could best deliver aid to the Yazidi people," a spokesperson said.
Villagers 'massacred'Thousands of people are fleeing from IS fighters, who are said to be targeting Iraqi Christians and members of the Yazidi religious sect.
On Friday, reports said militants in northern Iraq had massacred at least 80 men from the Yazidi faith in a village and abducted women and children.
IS fighters entered Kocho, 45km (30 miles) from Sinjar, reportedly telling men to convert to Islam or die.
The UN has declared the situation in the country a "level three emergency" - its highest level of humanitarian crisis.
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