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The Richardson Islands are an island group located in the Coronation Gulf, south of Victoria Island, in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. Other island groups in the vicinity include the Bate Islands , Outpost Islands , Sesqui Islands , and Sisters Islands .
Melville Island [1] (French: île Melville [citation needed]; Inuktitut: ᐃᓗᓪᓕᖅ, Ilulliq [citation needed]) is an uninhabited member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands of the Arctic Archipelago. With an area of 42,149 km 2 (16,274 sq mi), it is the 33rd largest island in the world and Canada's eighth largest island.
Victoria Island (Inuinnaqtun: Kitlineq) [5] [6] is a large island in the Arctic Archipelago that straddles the boundary between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is the eighth-largest island in the world, and at 217,291 km 2 (83,897 sq mi) 1 in area, it is Canada's second-largest island. It is nearly double the size of ...
Topography of Baffin Island Coast of the Remote Peninsula in Kangiqtualuk Uqquqti (Sam Ford Fjord), northeast Baffin Island Southern tip of Baffin Island Mount Thor, a large cliff on Baffin Island Map of Thule expansion in Canada and Greenland Pangnirtung. Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, is located on the southeastern coast.
Rank World rank Name Area (km 2) Area (sq mi) Territory or province Permanent population (2016) Notes Refs 1: 5: Baffin Island: 507,451 195,928: Nunavut: 13,148: Population does not include Kinngait and Qikiqtarjuaq.
The boundaries had been drawn in 1993. The creation of Nunavut resulted in the first major change to Canada's political map in half a century since the province of Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador) was admitted in 1949. Nunavut comprises a major portion of Northern Canada and most of the Arctic Archipelago.
Nagjuttuuq (Inuktitut syllabics: ᓇᒡᔪᑦᑑᖅ [1]), formerly Vansittart Island, [2] is one of the uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Foxe Basin , north of Southampton Island , and has an area of 997 km 2 (385 sq mi).
Bathurst Island is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Nunavut, Canada. It is a member of the Arctic Archipelago . An uninhabited island , the area is estimated at 16,042 km 2 (6,194 sq mi), [ 1 ] 185 to 188 km (115 to 117 mi) long and from 101 km (63 mi) to 116 km (72 mi) to 149.5 km (92.9 mi) wide, making it Canada's 13th largest island .