Mackenzie King Island
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Key facts
- Location
- Northern Canada
- Archipelago
- Queen Elizabeth Islands , Arctic Archipelago
- Area
- 5,048 km (1,949 sq mi)
- Length
- 61 mi (98 km)
- Width
- 60 mi (100 km)
- Highest elevation
- 112 m (367 ft)
- Territory
- Northwest Territories , Nunavut
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Named after
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Nunavut
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 5048
- Body of water
- Arctic Ocean
- Image
- Mackenzie-King-Borden-Brock-Inseln.jpg
- Width
- 60
- Length
- 61
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- time of discovery or invention
- 1915-00-00
- Commons category
- Mackenzie King Island
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Encyclopedic overview
Mackenzie King Island is one of the uninhabited Queen Elizabeth Islands in northern Canada. It lies north of Melville Island and south of Borden Island, and like them is divided when it comes to administration. Most of the island is in Northwest Territories, while its easternmost portion lies in Nunavut. The border runs along the 110th meridian west.
Mackenzie King has an area of 5,048 km (1,949 sq mi), 60 miles (97 km) long in northeast or 47 miles (76 km) in southeast and 60 miles (97 km) wide, making it the 116th largest island in the world, and Canada's 26th largest island.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mackenzie King Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.