Cornwallis Island
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Key facts
- Location
- Northern Canada
- Archipelago
- Queen Elizabeth Islands , Arctic Archipelago
- Area
- 6,995 km (2,701 sq mi)
- Length
- 113 km (70.2 mi)
- Width
- 95 km (59 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 359 m (1178 ft)
- Highest point
- Unnamed High Point
- Territory
- Nunavut
- Largest settlement
- Resolute (pop. 183)
- Population
- 183 (2021)
- Pop density
- 0.026/km (0.067/sq mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Queen Elizabeth Islands
- Named after
- William Cornwallis
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Nunavut
- Capital
- Resolute
- Population
- 299
- Area
- 6995
- Elevation
- 359
- Body of water
- Arctic Ocean
- Image
- Wfm cornwallis island.jpg
- Width
- 95
- Length
- 113
Show 3 more facts
- time of discovery or invention
- 1819-00-00
- Commons category
- Cornwallis Island
- native label
- Île Cornwallis
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Cornwallis Island is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, part of the Arctic Archipelago, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic. It lies to the west of Devon Island, the largest uninhabited island in the world, and at its greatest length is about 113 km (70 mi). At 6,995 km (2,701 sq mi) in size, it is the 96th largest island in the world, and Canada's 21st largest island. Cornwallis Island is separated by the Wellington Channel from Devon Island, and by the Parry Channel from Somerset Island to the south. Northwest of Cornwallis Island lies Little Cornwallis Island, the biggest of a group of small islands at the north end of McDougall Sound, which separates Cornwallis Island from nearby Bathurst Island.
NASA Landsat photo of Cornwallis Island
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cornwallis Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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