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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 .
Victoria Island (VI) is an affluent area that encompasses a former island of the same name neighbouring Lagos Island, Ikoyi and the Lekki Peninsula by the Lagos Lagoon. It is the main business and financial centre of Lagos State , Nigeria.
Cambridge Bay (Inuinnaqtun: Iqaluktuuttiaq [9] Inuktitut: ᐃᖃᓗᒃᑑᑦᑎᐊᖅ; 2021 population 1,760; [6] population centre 1,403 [7]) is a hamlet located on Victoria Island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is the largest settlement on Victoria Island.
Victoria Island has a surface area of 10.8 km 2 (4.2 sq mi) and was formerly almost completely covered by an ice cap where the highest point reached 105 m (344 ft) above sea level. [2] In the 1990s there was an area of about 10 hectares (25 acres) at the northern end of the island that was unglaciated.
Victoria Island is an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, 20 km (12 mi) southwest of Stockton. [1] The 7,200-acre (2,900 ha) island is bounded on the north by North Victoria Canal, on the northeast by Middle River, on the southeast by Victoria Canal, and on the south- and southwest Old River.
The large island at the centre of this satellite image is Victoria Island, with Banks Island top left. The Victoria Strait adjoins the east coast of Victoria Island, just above the Queen Maud Gulf which runs west to east. Victoria Strait is a strait in northern Canada that lies in Nunavut off the mainland in the Arctic Ocean. It is between ...
Victoria Island [4] (French: Île Victoria, Algonquin: Asinabka) [5] is an island in the Ottawa River, located north of LeBreton Flats, 1 km west of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario. The island is "a place of special significance" to the local Algonquian peoples , [ 2 ] who use the island for ceremonial purposes and for protests. [ 6 ]
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