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Prince of Wales Island (Nunavut)

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One of the larger members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Prince of Wales Island (Île du Prince-de-Galles) is an Arctic island in Nunavut, Canada, lying between Victoria Island and Somerset Island and south of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. [1]

56 relations: Baring Bay, Barrow Strait, Barth Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, De la Roquette Islands, Dixon Island (Canada), Edgeworth Island, Erasmus Ommanney, Franklin Strait, Hay Islands, Hobday Island, Horatio Thomas Austin, Jane Franklin, Joseph René Bellot, Kitikmeot Region, Kitikmeot Region, Northwest Territories, Larsen Sound, List of Canadian islands by area, List of islands by area, List of islands by name (P), List of islands named after people, List of islands of Canada, List of islands of North America, Lock Island (Nunavut), Lowther Island, M'Clintock Channel, North Magnetic Pole, Northwest Passage, Ommanney Bay, Pandora Island, Parry Channel, Peary caribou, Peel Sound, Prescott Island, Prince of Wales Island, Prince of Wales Strait, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Romundina, Royal eponyms in Canada, Russell Island (Nunavut), Sherard Osborn, Somerset Island (Nunavut), Sound (geography), Timeline of European exploration, Viscount Melville Sound, Vivian Island, 100th meridian west, 101st meridian west, 102nd meridian west, 103rd meridian west, ..., 72nd parallel north, 73rd parallel north, 96th meridian west, 97th meridian west, 98th meridian west, 99th meridian west. Expand index (6 more) »

Baring Bay

Baring Bay is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.

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Barrow Strait

Barrow Strait is a shipping waterway in Northern Canada's territory of Nunavut.

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Barth Island

Barth Island an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.

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Canadian Arctic Archipelago

The Canadian Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Arctic Archipelago, is a group of islands north of the Canadian mainland.

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De la Roquette Islands

The De la Roquette Islands are members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut.

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Dixon Island (Canada)

Dixon Island is an island of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, in the territory of Nunavut.

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Edgeworth Island

Edgeworth Island is a member of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut.

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Erasmus Ommanney

Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney, KCB, FRS, FRGS, JP (22 May 1814 – 21 December 1904) was a Royal Navy officer and an Arctic explorer of the Victorian era.

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Franklin Strait

The Franklin Strait is an Arctic waterway in Northern Canada's territory of Nunavut.

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Hay Islands

The Hay Islands are members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut.

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Hobday Island

Hobday Island is an island of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, in the territory of Nunavut.

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Horatio Thomas Austin

Vice Admiral Sir Horatio Thomas Austin (1801 – 16 November 1865) was a British officer in the Royal Navy, and an explorer.

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Jane Franklin

Jane Franklin (née Griffin; 4 December 1791 – 18 July 1875), known as Lady Franklin after her husband's knighthood, was the second wife of the English explorer Sir John Franklin.

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Joseph René Bellot

Joseph René Bellot (March 18, 1826 – August 18, 1853) was a French Arctic explorer.

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Kitikmeot Region

Kitikmeot Region (Inuktitut: Qitirmiut ᕿᑎᕐᒥᐅᑦ) is an administrative region of Nunavut, Canada.

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Kitikmeot Region, Northwest Territories

The Kitikmeot Region was part of the Northwest Territories until division in April 1999 when most of the region became part of Nunavut.

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Larsen Sound

Larsen Sound is an Arctic waterway in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada.

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List of Canadian islands by area

This is a list of Canadian islands, as ordered by area.

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List of islands by area

This list of islands by area includes all islands in the world greater than and several other islands over, sorted in descending order by area.

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List of islands by name (P)

This article features a list of islands sorted by their name beginning with the letter P.

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List of islands named after people

This is a list of islands known to be named after individual people.

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List of islands of Canada

This is an incomplete list of islands of Canada.

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List of islands of North America

The following is a list of the major island groups of North America.

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Lock Island (Nunavut)

Lock Island is a member of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut.

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Lowther Island

Lowther Island lies within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Canada's territory of Nunavut.

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M'Clintock Channel

M'Clintock Channel (also spelled McClintock Channel) is located in the territory of Nunavut, Canada.

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North Magnetic Pole

The North Magnetic Pole is the wandering point on the surface of Earth's Northern Hemisphere at which the planet's magnetic field points vertically downwards (in other words, if a magnetic compass needle is allowed to rotate about a horizontal axis, it will point straight down).

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Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage (abbreviated as NWP) is, from the European and northern Atlantic point of view, the sea route to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Ommanney Bay

Ommanney Bay is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.

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Pandora Island

Pandora Island is a member of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut.

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Parry Channel

The Parry Channel is a natural waterway through the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Peary caribou

The Peary caribou (Rangifer tarandus pearyi) is a subspecies of the reindeer (or the caribou in North America) found in the High Arctic islands of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in Canada.

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Peel Sound

Peel Sound is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada.

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Prescott Island

Prescott Island is one of the uninhabited Canadian Arctic islands in the territory of Nunavut.

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Prince of Wales Island

Prince of Wales Island may refer to.

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Prince of Wales Strait

The Prince of Wales Strait is a strait in the Northwest Territories of Canada separating Banks Island to the northwest from Victoria Island to the southeast.

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Qikiqtaaluk Region

The Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtani Region (ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ) or Baffin Region is the easternmost administrative region of Nunavut, Canada.

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Romundina

Romundina stellina is a small, heavily armored extinct species of acanthothoracid placoderm which lived in shallow marine environments in the early Devonian (Lochkovian).

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Royal eponyms in Canada

In Canada, a number of sites and structures are named for royal individuals, whether a member of the past French Royal Family, British Royal Family, or present Canadian Royal Family thus reflecting the country's status as a constitutional monarchy under the Canadian Crown.

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Russell Island (Nunavut)

Russell Island is an uninhabited island of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.

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Sherard Osborn

Sherard Osborn (25 April 1822 – 6 May 1875), was a Royal Navy admiral and Arctic explorer.

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Somerset Island (Nunavut)

In the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Somerset Island (Inuktitut Kuganajuup Qikiqtanga) is a large, uninhabited island separated by the wide Bellot Strait from the Boothia Peninsula in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada, lying between Peel Sound (across which lies Prince of Wales Island) and Prince Regent Inlet (across which lies Baffin Island).

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Sound (geography)

In geography, a sound is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, and wider than a fjord; or a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land (see also strait).

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Timeline of European exploration

The following timeline covers European exploration from 1418 to 1957.

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Viscount Melville Sound

Viscount Melville Sound is an arm of the Arctic Ocean in Kitikmeot, Nunavut, Canada.

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Vivian Island

Vivian Island is a member of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut.

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100th meridian west

The meridian 100° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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101st meridian west

The meridian 101° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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102nd meridian west

The meridian 102° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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103rd meridian west

The meridian 103° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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72nd parallel north

The 72nd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 72 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic.

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73rd parallel north

The 73rd parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 73 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, in the Arctic.

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96th meridian west

The meridian 96° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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97th meridian west

The 97th meridian west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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98th meridian west

The meridian 98° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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99th meridian west

The meridian 99° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.

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Canada Prince of Wales Island, Prince of Wales Island (Nunavut Territory), Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Wales_Island_(Nunavut)

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