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67 relations: Albert, Prince Consort, Amadjuak Lake, Amundsen Gulf, Atlas of Canada, Austin Bay (Nunavut), Baffin Island, Banks Island, Barren-ground caribou, Cambridge Bay, Canada, Canada 2006 Census, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1916, Canadian Internal Waters, Coronation Gulf, Dease Strait, Dolphin and Union Strait, Dolphin-Union caribou, Ferguson Lake (Kitikmeot Region), Fort Collinson, Goldsmith Channel, Government of Canada, Great Britain, Hamlet (place), Honshu, Inlet, International waters, Inuit, Inuvik Region, John Rae (explorer), John Richardson (naturalist), Kitikmeot Region, List of Canadian islands by area, List of Canadian monarchs, List of islands by area, List of peninsulas, M'Clintock Channel, Maple leaf, National symbols of Canada, Newfoundland (island), Northern Canada, Northwest Passage, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Parker's Notch, Peary caribou, Peter Warren Dease, Prince Albert Peninsula, Prince of Wales Strait, Provinces and territories of Canada, ..., Queen Victoria, Reindeer, Roald Amundsen, Robert McClure, Shaler Mountains, Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, Stefansson Island, Territorial waters, Thomas Simpson (explorer), Trading post, Tunnunik impact crater, Ulukhaktok, United Nations Environment Programme, Victoria Strait, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Viscount Melville Sound, Wollaston Peninsula. Expand index (17 more) »
Albert, Prince Consort
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband and consort of Queen Victoria.
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Amadjuak Lake
Amadjuak Lake is a lake in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada.
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Amundsen Gulf
Amundsen Gulf is a gulf located in Canada's Northwest Territories, between Banks Island and Victoria Island and the mainland.
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Atlas of Canada
The Atlas of Canada (L'Atlas du Canada) is an online atlas published by Natural Resources Canada that has information on every city, town, village, and hamlet in Canada.
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Austin Bay (Nunavut)
Austin Bay is an Arctic waterway in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada.
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Baffin Island
Baffin Island (ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ, Qikiqtaaluk, Île de Baffin or Terre de Baffin), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest island in the world.
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Banks Island
Banks Island is one of the larger members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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Barren-ground caribou
The barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) is a subspecies of the reindeer (or the caribou in North America) that is found mainly in the Canadian territories of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, as well as in Kitaa, Greenland.
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Cambridge Bay
Cambridge Bay (Inuinnaqtun: Iqaluktuuttiaq Inuktitut: ᐃᖃᓗᒃᑑᑦᑎᐊᖅ; 2016 population 1,766; population centre 1,619) is a hamlet located on Victoria Island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Canada 2006 Census
The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population.
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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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Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1916
The Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–1916 was a scientific expedition in the Arctic Circle organized and led by Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
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Canadian Internal Waters
Canadian Internal Waters is a Canadian term for the waters "on the landward side of the baselines of the territorial sea of Canada.".
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Coronation Gulf
Coronation Gulf lies between Victoria Island and mainland Nunavut in Canada.
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Dease Strait
Dease Strait is an east-west waterway between the mainland's Kent Peninsula and Victoria Island in Nunavut, Canada.
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Dolphin and Union Strait
Dolphin and Union Strait lies in both the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada, between the mainland and Victoria Island.
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Dolphin-Union caribou
Dolphin and Union Caribou, Dolphin and Union caribou herd, Dolphin-Union, locally known as Island Caribou, are a migratory population of barren-ground caribou, Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus, that occupy Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the nearby mainland.
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Ferguson Lake (Kitikmeot Region)
Ferguson Lake (Inuinnaqtun: Tahiryuaq or Tahikyoak) is located on southern Victoria Island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, in northern Canada.
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Fort Collinson
Fort Collinson was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post (Post Number B.405) located on Victoria Island in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
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Goldsmith Channel
Goldsmith Channel is a waterway in the Canadian territory of Nunavut connecting Parry Channel and M'Clintock Channel.
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Government of Canada
The Government of Canada (Gouvernement du Canada), formally Her Majesty's Government (Gouvernement de Sa Majesté), is the federal administration of Canada.
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Great Britain
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
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Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is a small human settlement.
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Honshu
Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan, located south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits.
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Inlet
An inlet is an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow, such as a small bay or arm, that often leads to an enclosed body of salt water, such as a sound, bay, lagoon, or marsh.
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International waters
The terms international waters or trans-boundary waters apply where any of the following types of bodies of water (or their drainage basins) transcend international boundaries: oceans, large marine ecosystems, enclosed or semi-enclosed regional seas and estuaries, rivers, lakes, groundwater systems (aquifers), and wetlands.
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Inuit
The Inuit (ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, "the people") are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada and Alaska.
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Inuvik Region
The Inuvik Region is one of five administrative regions in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
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John Rae (explorer)
John Rae (Inuktitut  ᐊᒡᓘᑲ English: "long strider") (30 September 1813 – 22 July 1893) was a Scottish surgeon who explored parts of northern Canada, found the final portion of the Northwest Passage (Rae Strait, named after him) and reported the fate of Franklin's lost expedition.
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John Richardson (naturalist)
Sir John Richardson FRS FRSE FLS FGS MWS LLD (5 November 1787 – 5 June 1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.
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Kitikmeot Region
Kitikmeot Region (Inuktitut: Qitirmiut ᕿᑎᕐᒥᐅᑦ) is an administrative region of 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 Canadian monarchs
Listed here are the monarchs who reigned over the French and British colonies of Canada, followed by the Dominion of Canada, and finally the present-day sovereign state of Canada.
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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 peninsulas
A peninsula (paeninsula from paene "almost" and insula "island") is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland.
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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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Maple leaf
The maple leaf is the characteristic leaf of the maple tree, and is the most widely recognized national symbol of Canada.
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National symbols of Canada
National symbols of Canada are the symbols that are used in Canada and abroad to represent the country and its people.
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Newfoundland (island)
Newfoundland (Terre-Neuve) is a large Canadian island off the east coast of the North American mainland, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Northern Canada
Northern Canada, colloquially the North, is the vast northernmost region of Canada variously defined by geography and politics.
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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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Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories (NT or NWT; French: les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, TNO; Athabaskan languages: Denendeh; Inuinnaqtun: Nunatsiaq; Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ) is a federal territory of Canada.
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Nunavut
Nunavut (Inuktitut syllabics ᓄᓇᕗᑦ) is the newest, largest, and northernmost territory of Canada.
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Parker's Notch
Parker's Notch, named after former Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, John Havelock Parker, is a protrusion of the Northwest Territories southwards into Nunavut on Victoria Island.
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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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Peter Warren Dease
Peter Warren Dease (January 1, 1788 – January 17, 1863) was a Canadian fur trader and arctic explorer.
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Prince Albert Peninsula
Prince Albert Peninsula is located on northwest Victoria Island in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
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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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Provinces and territories of Canada
The provinces and territories of Canada are the sub-national governments within the geographical areas of Canada under the authority of the Canadian Constitution.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.
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Reindeer
The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), also known as the caribou in North America, is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, sub-Arctic, tundra, boreal and mountainous regions of northern Europe, Siberia and North America.
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Roald Amundsen
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions.
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Robert McClure
Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure (or M'Clure) (28 January 1807 – 17 October 1873) was an Irish explorer of the Arctic.
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Shaler Mountains
The Shaler Mountains are a mountain range situated at the Northwest Territories-Nunavut border on north-central Victoria Island, Canada.
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Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet
Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, FRS, FRGS (19 June 1764 – 23 November 1848) was an English statesman and writer.
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Stefansson Island
Stefansson Island is an uninhabited island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada.
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Territorial waters
Territorial waters or a territorial sea, as defined by the 2013 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is a belt of coastal waters extending at most from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state.
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Thomas Simpson (explorer)
Thomas Simpson (2 July 1808 – 14 June 1840) was an arctic explorer, Hudson's Bay Company agent and cousin of HBC governor Sir George Simpson.
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Trading post
A trading post, trading station, or trading house was a place or establishment where the trading of goods took place; the term is generally used, in modern parlance, in reference to such establishments in historic Northern America, although the practice long predates that continent's colonization by Europeans.
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Tunnunik impact crater
The Tunnunik impact crater, formerly known as the Prince Albert Impact Crater, is a recently confirmed meteorite impact crater.
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Ulukhaktok
Ulukhaktok (Kangiryuarmiutun (Inuit language) spelling Ulukhaqtuuq and known until 1 April 2006 as Holman or Holman Island) is a small hamlet on the west coast of Victoria Island, in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.
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United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is an agency of United Nations and coordinates its environmental activities, assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices.
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Victoria Strait
Victoria Strait is a strait in northern Canada that lies in Nunavut off the mainland in the Arctic Ocean.
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Vilhjálmur Stefánsson) (November 3, 1879 – August 26, 1962) was a Canadian Arctic explorer and ethnologist.
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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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Wollaston Peninsula
The Wollaston Peninsula (previously, Wollaston Land) is a west-pointing peninsula located on southwestern Victoria Island, Canada.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Island_(Canada)
