Buckingham Island

Buckingham Island
	Norwegian Bay with Graham Island and to the southwest of it Buckingham Island
Waters	Norwegian Bay
Archipelago	Queen Elizabeth Islands
Geographical location	77 ° 12 ′ N , 91 ° 0 ′ W Coordinates: 77 ° 12 ′ N , 91 ° 0 ′ W
length	15 km
width	11 km
surface	137 km²
Highest elevation	Mount Windsor ; 150 m
Residents	uninhabited
	Location of Buckingham Island in Norwegian Bay

Buckingham Island is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Nunavut , Canada .

geography

The island is located in Norwegian Bay, southwest of the larger Graham Island , from which it is separated by a 4 km wide channel at its narrowest point. The distance to the south-southeastern island of North Kent Island is 38 km, to the northwestern island of Cornwall Island 60 km. Buckingham Island is oval in shape with no prominent capes. The land rises gently from the coasts to the centrally located 150 m high Mount Windsor. Buckingham Island is approximately 15 km long and 7 miles wide. The island has an area of 137 km².

Buckingham Island is known for the phenomenon of solifluction that occurs here , which was first described in 1855.

history

The island was discovered in June 1852 by a search expedition for the missing John Franklin , under the command of Edward Belcher . He named it after the royal Buckingham Palace in London, and its highest point after Windsor Castle .

In 1900 the island was explored and mapped by Otto Sverdrup's Second Norwegian Fram Expedition (1898–1902) .

Individual evidence

↑ The Atlas of Canada - Sea Islands ( Memento from October 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
^ Richard J. Chorley: The History of the Study of Landforms Or the Development of Geomorphology: Quaternary and Recent Processes and Forms (1890-1965) and the Mid-century Revolutions . The Geological Society Publishing House, Bath 2008, p. 193
^ Edward Belcher: The last of the Arctic voyages being a narrative of the expedition in HMS Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, CB, in search of Sir John Franklin during the years 1852–53–54 . Volume 1, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 307f (English)
^ Edward Belcher: The last of the Arctic voyages being a narrative of the expedition in HMS Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, CB, in search of Sir John Franklin during the years 1852–53–54 . Volume 1, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, p. 309 (English)
^ Otto Sverdrup: New Land . Volume 1, Longmans, Green & Co., London 1904, p. 475 (English)

Web links

Graham Island (with Buckingham Island) ( Memento from February 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) in the island encyclopedia www.oceandots.com (English)

[1] The Atlas of Canada - Sea Islands ( Memento from October 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

[2] Richard J. Chorley: The History of the Study of Landforms Or the Development of Geomorphology: Quaternary and Recent Processes and Forms (1890-1965) and the Mid-century Revolutions . The Geological Society Publishing House, Bath 2008, p. 193

[3] Edward Belcher: The last of the Arctic voyages being a narrative of the expedition in HMS Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, CB, in search of Sir John Franklin during the years 1852–53–54 . Volume 1, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 307f (English)

[4] Edward Belcher: The last of the Arctic voyages being a narrative of the expedition in HMS Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, CB, in search of Sir John Franklin during the years 1852–53–54 . Volume 1, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, p. 309 (English)

[5] Otto Sverdrup: New Land . Volume 1, Longmans, Green & Co., London 1904, p. 475 (English)