Brevoort Island
| Brevoort Island | ||
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| Waters | Labrador Sea | |
| Archipelago | Lemieux Islands | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 30 ′ N , 64 ° 20 ′ W | |
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| length | 46 km | |
| width | 7 km | |
| surface | 271 km² | |
Brevoort Iceland is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut .
With an area of 271 km², it is the largest of the Lemieux Islands , which are off the east coast of Baffin Island between Cape Murchison in the southeast and Cape Edwards in the northwest. The elongated Brevoort Island is only 5 to 7 km wide, but 46 km long in north-south direction. The island is separated from the Beekman Peninsula of Baffin Island by Robinson Sound and the Anderson Channel. The smallest distance is about 1200 m. The coasts are mostly steep. The interior of the island is characterized by a hilly landscape at a height of 250 to a little over 400 m.
In the south, just a few kilometers from Cape Murchison, the island has the natural harbor Brevoort Harbor. On a hill near it there had been a station of the military early warning system of the Distant Early Warning Line , now the North Warning System, since the 1950s .
Bearded seals are common in the shallow waters west of Brevoort Island . Also walruses live year-round on the west coast of the island. Inuit visit Brevoort Island to hunt caribou and polar bears .
The island is named after the American historian James Carson Brevoort (1818–1887).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sailing Directions for Baffin Bay and Davis Strait . Change No. 7 to HO Pub. No. 16, Second Edition 1951, US Government Printing Service, Washington 1962, p. 72. Limited preview in Google Book Search
- ↑ Brevoort Island ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in the island encyclopedia www.oceandots.com (English).
- ↑ Res-X-1, Brevoort Island, Nunavut , accessed February 27, 2020.
- ↑ Nunavut Coastal Resource Inventory - Iqaluit , Department of Environment, Fisheries and Sealing Division, Iqaluit 2012, ( PDF ; 20.8 MB; English).
- ^ Charles Francis Hall : Life with the Esquimaux . Vol. II, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, London 1864, p. 39 .