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Prince Patrick Island
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Vinony's link graph records 487 inbound references to Prince Patrick Island, and connects out to Canada, Denmark and volcano.
The entry is geolocated on the map in NT.
It sits within the topics Former populated places in the Inuvik Region, Islands of the Beaufort Sea and Islands of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
Vinony links it to 50 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Location
- Northern Canada
- Archipelago
- Queen Elizabeth Islands , Arctic Archipelago
- Area
- 15,848 km (6,119 sq mi)
- Area rank
- 55th
- Highest elevation
- 279 m (915 ft)
- Highest point
- unnamed
- Territory
- Northwest Territories
- Population
- Uninhabited
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Northwest Territories
- Continent
- North America
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 15848
- Time zone
- UTC−07:00
- Body of water
- Arctic Ocean
- Image
- Prince Patrick Island 2022-08-29 Sentinel-2 L2A Highlight Optimized Natural Color.jpg
- Width
- 80
- Length
- 240
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- Commons category
- Prince Patrick Island
- located in/on physical feature
- Queen Elizabeth Islands
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- time of discovery or invention
- 1853-00-00
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
A member of the Arctic Archipelago, Prince Patrick Island is the westernmost of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Northwest Territories of Canada, lying northwest of Melville Island. The area of Prince Patrick Island is 15,848 km (6,119 sq mi), making it the 55th largest island in the world and Canada's 14th largest island. It has historically been icebound all year, making it one of the least accessible parts of Canada. Located at the entrance of the M'Clure Strait, Prince Patrick Island is uninhabited.
The first known sighting of the island was in 1853 by the Irish naval officer George Mecham, when it was explored by him and his fellow Irish explorer Francis Leopold McClintock in the spring of that year during the Edward Belcher expedition. Much later, it was named for Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught, who was Governor General of Canada from 1911 to 1916.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prince Patrick Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.