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Coats Island (Inuktitut: ᐊᑉᐸᑑᕐᔪᐊᖅ, Appatuurjuaq) [2] lies at the northern end of Hudson Bay in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut. At 5,498 km 2 (2,123 sq mi) in size, it is the 107th largest island in the world , and Canada's 24th largest island .
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.
King William Island (French: Île du Roi-Guillaume; previously: King William Land; Inuktitut: Qikiqtaq) [3] is an island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, which is part of the Arctic Archipelago. In area it is between 12,516 km 2 (4,832 sq mi) [ 4 ] and 13,111 km 2 (5,062 sq mi) [ 5 ] making it the 61st-largest island in the world and Canada ...
Resolution Island is one of the many uninhabited Canadian Arctic islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. It is a Baffin Island offshore island located in Davis Strait. It has an area of 1,015 km 2 (392 sq mi). [2] The Lower Savage Islands lie between Resolution Island and Baffin Island, while Graves Strait separates Resolution Island from the ...
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.
Alert, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, is the northernmost continuously inhabited place in the world. [5] [6] The location is on Ellesmere Island (in the Queen Elizabeth Islands) at latitude 82°30'05" north, 817 km (508 mi) from the North Pole. [7]
Kodlunarn Island is located near the northeastern shore of Frobisher Bay and lies 190 km (120 mi) from Iqaluit, the capital city of Nunavut. [2] The island, which measures about 7 ha (0.070 km 2 ; 17 acres) in area, [ note 2 ] is largely surrounded by vertical cliffs, and its terrain consists primarily of barren rock and gravel.
In the 2013 American superhero film Man of Steel, Ellesmere Island is the site of a combined United States-Canadian scientific expedition to recover an ancient Kryptonian spaceship buried in the glacial ice pack. [56] The island is the location for the 2014 BBC programme Snow Wolf Family and Me. [57]
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