Brock Island
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| Waters | Arctic Ocean |
| Archipelago | Queen Elizabeth Islands |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 51 ′ N , 114 ° 27 ′ W |
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| length | 37 km |
| width | 22 km |
| surface | 764 km² |
| Highest elevation | 67 m |
| Residents | uninhabited |
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Brock Island is located in the western part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands . It belongs to the Northwest Territories of Canada . The 764 km² island is located west of Mackenzie King Island .
The surface of the island is flat (the highest point measures 67 meters), the shape is almost rectangular (37 by 22 km).
Like Mackenzie King Island and Borden Island , it was only discovered during the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–1918. Størker Størkersen reached the island on June 18, 1915. The expedition leader Vilhjálmur Stefánsson named it after Reginald Walter Brock (1874-1935), the director of the Geological Survey of Canada .
Individual evidence
- ↑ William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia , Vol. 1, ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , p. 102 (English)
Web links
- Brock Island ( Memento of May 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in the island encyclopedia www.oceandots.com (English)