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Air Force Island
Air Force Island: uninhabited island in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, in northeastern Foxe Basin between Baffin Island and Prince Charles Island; area 1,863.34 km², coastline 239.15 km, name official since 1949.
Baillie-Hamilton Island
Baillie-Hamilton Island, Nunavut: uninhabited Queen Elizabeth Island in the Canadian Arctic, 290 km2, 26 by 12 km, flat-topped with 215 m cliffs, kittiwake colony at Washington Point, polynya to its north.
Banks Island (банкс)
Banks Island (банкс) is the fourth largest and westernmost Canadian Arctic Island, in the Northwest Territories, area about 70,000 km2. Home to Aulavik National Park, huge lesser snow goose colonies, over half the world's muskoxen, and the sole settlement Sachs Harbour.
Belcher Islands
Belcher Islands (ᓴᓪᓚᔪᒐᐃᑦ): about 1,500 islands in southeastern Hudson Bay, Nunavut, Canada, with only Sanikiluaq as settlement; folded Paleoproterozoic Belcher Group rocks, stromatolites, oldest known cyanobacteria, and the Qikiqtait MPA.
Big Island
Big Island, or Qikiqtarjuaq (ᕿᑭᖅᑕᕐᔪᐊᖅ), is the Inuktitut name meaning "big island": the Nunavut hamlet on Broughton Island renamed in 1998, and a separate uninhabited Hudson Strait island formerly called Big Island.
Borden Island
Borden Island, an uninhabited 2,794 km2 island of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago; discovered by Vilhjalmur Stefansson in 1915 as First Land, named for Prime Minister Robert Borden, split between Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Brock Island
Brock Island (île Brock) is an uninhabited 764 km2 Queen Elizabeth Island in the Northwest Territories, Canada, discovered and claimed by Vilhjalmur Stefansson in June 1915 and named for R.W. Brock of the Geological Survey of Canada.
Bylot Island
Bylot Island, Nunavut, an 11,100 km² uninhabited Canadian Arctic island off northern Baffin Island in Sirmilik National Park; a biodiversity hotspot with a greater snow goose colony and a 35-year tundra food web monitoring program.
Cameron Island
Cameron Island, Nunavut: uninhabited 1,059 km² island in the Governor General Group off Bathurst Island, Queen Elizabeth Islands; site of the Bent Horn oil field, the only Arctic Islands oil ever produced (1985–1996).
Charlton Island
Charlton Island (Sivukutaitiarruvik) is an uninhabited island in James Bay, Nunavut, Canada, near the Rupert River mouth. Thomas James wintered there in 1631-32; the Hudson's Bay Company ran a fur depot there 1680-1686 and 1903-1931. Not the Antarctic Charlton Island in Vincennes Bay.
Coburg Island
Coburg Island: uninhabited Nunavut island in eastern Jones Sound between Ellesmere and Devon islands, separating Lady Ann Strait from Glacier Strait; Nirjutiqavvik National Wildlife Area (1995) with 160,000 pairs of Thick-billed Murres at Cambridge Point.
Cornwall Island
Cornwall Island names several Canadian places: an uninhabited 2,358 km² Arctic island in Nunavut's Queen Elizabeth Islands, named by Belcher in 1852; a Saint Lawrence River island south of Cornwall, Ontario; and a Northwest Territories island.
Crown Prince Frederik Island
Crown Prince Frederik Island, an uninhabited 401 km2 island in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region, Gulf of Boothia, off western Baffin Island at 70°02′N 86°50′W; polar bear denning habitat, official Canadian name since 1951.
Edgell Island
Edgell Island is a Nunavut island off Baffin Island's southeastern tip in Davis Strait, near the Frobisher Bay entrance; 61°50′N 65°W, elevation 148 m, official Canadian name since 1946, distinct from a British Columbia namesake.
Eglinton Island
Eglinton Island, uninhabited island in the Northwest Territories Canadian Arctic Archipelago at 75°45'N 118°50'W, west of Melville Island; charted in 1853 by M'Clintock and Mecham during Franklin searches.
Ellef Ringnes Island
Ellef Ringnes Island (also spelled Ellef Ringnes) is an uninhabited 11,295 km2 island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut, the westernmost Sverdrup Island, discovered in 1901 by Isachsen and Hassel and named for Norwegian brewer Ellef Ringnes.
Flaherty Island
Flaherty Island, largest island of the Belcher Islands in southeastern Hudson Bay, Nunavut, Canada; about 1,858 km², named for explorer Robert J. Flaherty, and home to Sanikiluaq, Nunavut's southernmost Inuit community, on its north coast.
Foley Island
Foley Island (Nunavut) is a 637 km2 low-lying Arctic island in Foxe Basin off southern Baffin Island, discovered by 1948 aerial surveys; distinct from smaller Foley Islands in New Brunswick and Ontario.
Helena Island
Helena Island: uninhabited island of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, at 76.65 N, 101.07 W, elevation 117 m; distinct from St Helena (South Atlantic) and St. Helena Island, South Carolina.
Ile Pauline
Ile Pauline (Île Pauline) is a small uninhabited island in Pearse Strait, Bathurst Island complex, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut, Canada; 4 km², about 9 m high, within Qausuittuq National Park. Islands of the same name exist in South Australia and Quebec.
Jenny Lind Island
Jenny Lind Island (Qikiqtaryuaq), Nunavut island in Queen Maud Gulf about 20 km off Victoria Island, named by explorer John Rae for the Swedish soprano Jenny Lind; a declining Lesser Snow Goose and Ross's Goose breeding colony and Important Bird Area.
Jens Munk Island
Jens Munk Island names two Arctic islands honoring explorer Jens Munk: Kapuiviit (ᑲᐳᐃᕖᑦ), a 920 km² uninhabited island in Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Canada, and Jens Munks Ø, a 471 km² island in Sermersooq, Greenland.
King Christian Island
King Christian Island: uninhabited island in the Sverdrup Islands, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, at 77°48′N 101°40′W off Ellef Ringnes Island; official name since 1924, mapped geologically in GSC Memoir 386, namesake of the Early Jurassic King Christian Formation.
Koch Island
Koch Island (Koch-Insel, 科赫島) is an uninhabited 458 km² island in Foxe Basin, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada, off Baffin Island near Rowley and Bray Islands, officially named 5 November 1946.
Little Cornwallis Island
Little Cornwallis Island, a low-lying Nunavut island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands at 75.5N 96.5W, hosted Cominco's Polaris lead-zinc mine, the world's northernmost base-metal mine, from 1981 to 2002.
Loks Land
Loks Land is an island in Nunavut's Canadian Arctic Archipelago, off Baffin Island's Blunt Peninsula at the entrance to Frobisher Bay, named by Martin Frobisher for Michael Lok.
Lougheed Island
Lougheed Island, Nunavut, is a 1,308 km2 uninhabited island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands, named by explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson in 1916 after Senator Sir James Lougheed; largest of the Findlay group, under 150 m elevation.
Mackenzie King Island
Mackenzie King Island is an uninhabited island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands of the Canadian Arctic, mostly in the Northwest Territories. About 5,048 km², largest of the Prime Minister group, named for Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1950.
Massey Island
Massey Island is an uninhabited 440 km² island in the Bathurst Island group, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic. It is part of the Governor General Group.
Matty Island
Matty Island is an uninhabited island in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada, between King William Island and the Boothia Peninsula, known for the phantom Franklin wreck tradition and Amundsen's 1903 grounding on its shoals.