Fitzjames Island
| Fitzjames Island | ||
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| Waters | Queen Maud Gulf , Arctic Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ N , 99 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| length | 1.6 km | |
| width | 300 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Fitzjames Iceland is an uninhabited island in the Kitikmeot region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut .
The flat island is located in the Queen Maud Gulf and is off the southern tip of the Graham Gore Peninsula of King William Island . It is about 1.6 km long and up to 300 m wide. The island is named after Captain James Fitzjames (1813-1848 / 1849), participant in the Franklin expedition , who took command of the HMS Erebus after John Franklin's death in 1847 .
Web links
- Fitzjames Island , The Atlas of Canada
Individual evidence
- ^ Clements Robert Markham : The Royal Geographical Society and the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6 . Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-108-04971-9 , pp. 16-17 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).