Hoved Island
| Hoved Island | ||
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| Waters | Baumann Fiord | |
| Archipelago | Queen Elizabeth Islands | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 32 ′ N , 85 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| length | 16 km | |
| width | 10 km | |
| surface | 158 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 350 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Hoved Iceland is an uninhabited island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut . The island is located in the Baumann Fiord between the two peninsulas Svendsen Peninsula and Bjorne Peninsula of Ellesmere Island . It is 158 km².
Hoved Island was first mapped and named by the second Norwegian expedition of the Fram (1898–1902) under Captain Otto Sverdrup . The Norwegian "Hovedøen" means something like "main island".
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Atlas of Canada - Sea Islands ( Memento from October 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ The Polarship Fram , fram.nl