Ekins Island
| Ekins Island | ||
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| Waters | Belcher Canal | |
| Archipelago | Queen Elizabeth Islands | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 9 '16 " N , 95 ° 47' 37" W | |
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| length | 5.5 km | |
| width | 2.8 km | |
| surface | 7.6 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 21 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Ekins Iceland is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut .
geography
Ekins Island forms with Table Island and Exmouth Island an archipelago that lies in the Belcher Channel between Devon Island in the south and Cornwall Island in the north. It is 8.1 km away from Cape Briggs on the Grinnel Peninsula Devon Islands. The shape of the island resembles a parallelogram with the long diagonal in east-west direction. It is 5.5 km long and up to 2.8 km wide. Compared to the neighboring islands, which reach heights of almost 200 m, Ekins Island is flat. The highest point is 21 m above sea level.
history
Edward Belcher discovered the island in 1852 while searching for the missing Franklin expedition . It appears under its current name on a card in a text written by Richard Owen in the appendix to Belcher's travelogue published in 1855. Charles Ekins (1768–1855) was HMS Superb commander in the 1816 bombing of Algiers , on which Belcher served 17 years.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Atlas of Canada
- ^ R. Owen: Note on some Remains of an Ichthyosaurus Discovered by Captain Sir Edward Belcher, CB, RN, at Exmouth Island, in lat. 77 ° 16 ′ N., long. 96 ° W . In: 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 2, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 389-391 (English).
- ^ William Richard O'Byrne: A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray, London 1849, p. 68 (English).