Aggijjat
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Aggijjat (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐊᒡᒋᔾᔭᑦ) formerly Durban Island is a Canadian Arctic island located in Nunavut, Canada. It is one of Baffin Island's northeast offshore islands within Davis Strait's Merchants Bay. It is in size. Durban Harbour is on the island's southeast facing side. Nearby can be found the larger Paallavvik, and Auyuittuq National Park is also to the west on Baffin Island.
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Aggijjat is referenced by 506 other articles, and connects out to Belcher Islands, Queen Elizabeth Islands and Qikiqtaaluk Region.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NU, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Former populated places in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Islands of Baffin Island and Islands of Davis Strait.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Nunavut
- Area
- 35.8
- Elevation
- 710
- Image
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- Width
- 3.4
- Length
- 10
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- Commons category
- Durban Island
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Encyclopedic overview
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Aggijjat (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐊᒡᒋᔾᔭᑦ) formerly Durban Island is a Canadian Arctic island located in Nunavut, Canada. It is one of Baffin Island's northeast offshore islands within Davis Strait's Merchants Bay. It is in size. Durban Harbour is on the island's southeast facing side. Nearby can be found the larger Paallavvik, and Auyuittuq National Park is also to the west on Baffin Island.
==History== Durban Island (FOX-E) is a former Distant Early Warning Line and is currently a North Warning System site.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aggijjat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations