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Hans Island
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island off the coast of Ellesmere Island, belonging to Canada and Denmark
Key facts
- Area
- 1.3 km (0.50 sq mi)
- Length
- 1,290 m (4230 ft)
- Width
- 1,199 m (3934 ft)
- Highest elevation
- 168 m (551 ft)
- Territory
- Nunavut
- Region
- Qikiqtaaluk
- King of canada prime minister of canada
- Charles III Mark Carney
- Autonomous territory
- Greenland
- Municipality
- Avannaata
- King of denmark prime minister of greenl
- Frederik X Jens-Frederik Nielsen Mette Frederiksen
- Population
- Uninhabited (2022)
- Time zones
- EST ( UTC-5 ) WGT ( UTC-2 )
- Summer dst
- EDT ( UTC-4 ) WGST ( UTC-1 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- disputed territory
- Part of
- Canada–Denmark border
- Named after
- Hans Hendrik
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Qikiqtaaluk Region
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 1.25
- Time zone
- Q5390
- Body of water
- Kennedy Channel
- Image
- HansIsland.png
- Width
- 1.1
- Length
- 1.4
- Significant event
- Whisky War
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- Hans Island
- located in/on physical feature
- Kennedy Channel
- native label
- ᑕᕐᑐᐸᓗᒃ
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Map of part of Kennedy Channel, with Hans Island
Hans Island (Inuktitut and Greenlandic: Tartupaluk, lit. 'kidney shaped'; Inuktitut syllabics: ᑕᕐᑐᐸᓗᒃ; Danish: Hans Ø, pronounced [hanˀs øˀ]; French: île Hans, pronounced [il ɑ̃(n)s]) is an island in the centre of the Kennedy Channel of the Nares Strait in the high Arctic region, split between the Canadian territory of Nunavut and the Danish rigsdel (autonomous territory) of Greenland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hans Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (5)
On the map
3 mapped locations