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Hill Island is a Baffin Island offshore island located in the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The uninhabited island lies in Frobisher Bay, approximately 12 km (7.5 mi) southwest of Iqaluit. Bishop Island and Faris Island are in the immediate vicinity. [1]
The northernmost cluster of islands, including Ellesmere Island, is known as the Queen Elizabeth Islands and was formerly the Parry Islands. The archipelago consists of 36,563 islands, of which 94 are classified as major islands, being larger than 130 km 2 (50 sq mi), and cover a total area of 1,400,000 km 2 (540,000 sq mi). [13]
Map of Canadian islands in the Arctic Ocean. Islands and island groups in the Arctic Archipelago include (all islands in Nunavut unless noted):
2.1 Along the coast of Europe. ... Bear Island; Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Akvitlak Islands; Arvalik Islands; ... Six Hill Cays; Windward Islands.
Cornwallis Island is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, part of the Arctic Archipelago, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic. It lies to the west of Devon Island , the largest uninhabited island in the world, and at its greatest length is about 113 km (70 mi).
The Canadian Arctic Rift System is a branch of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that extends 4,800 km (3,000 mi) into the North American continent. It is an incipient structure that diminishes in degree of development northwestward, bifurcates at the head of Baffin Bay and disappears into the Arctic Archipelago.
Map all coordinates using ... Archipelagoes of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (4 C, 23 ... (2 C, 12 P) I. Islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (19 C) J. James ...
The Sverdrup Islands is an archipelago of the northern Queen Elizabeth Islands, in Nunavut, Canada. The islands, part of the Arctic Archipelago , are situated in the Arctic Ocean , west of Ellesmere Island from 77° to 81° North and 85° to 106° West.
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