Griffith Island (Nunavut)
| Griffith Island | ||
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| Waters | Arctic Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Parry Islands , Queen Elizabeth Islands | |
| Geographical location | 74 ° 35 ′ N , 95 ° 30 ′ W | |
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| length | 20 km | |
| width | 12 km | |
| surface | 189 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 201 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Griffith Island is an uninhabited island in Nunavut Territory , Canada , and belongs to the Parry Islands group in the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Arctic Ocean . It is located in Barrow Strait south of Cornwallis Island , from which it is separated by the eleven kilometers wide Resolute Passage . Griffith Island is 20 km long, 12 km wide and has an area of 189 km². At its southeastern cape Cheyne Point , the island reaches a height of 201 meters.
The island was discovered on August 23, 1819 by William Parry on his first voyage in search of the Northwest Passage and named after Rear Admiral Edward Griffith (1767-1832). In search of the missing Franklin expedition, Horatio Thomas Austin , the captain of the Resolute , wintered on the island in 1851. During this time he made many investigations and explored together with his co-captain George F. McDougall (1825–1871) the strait between Bathurst Island and Cornwallis Island, the McDougall Sound .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Atlas of Canada - Sea Islands ( Memento from October 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ^ Map of Lancastersund , accessed December 22, 2017.
- ^ William Edward Parry: Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Performed in the Years 1819-20 . London 1821, p. 264 .
