Lougheed Island

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Lougheed Island
Satellite image of Lougheed Island (left)
Satellite image of Lougheed Island (left)
Waters Arctic Ocean
Archipelago Findlay Group ,
Queen Elizabeth Islands
Geographical location 77 ° 24 ′  N , 105 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 77 ° 24 ′  N , 105 ° 15 ′  W
Location of Lougheed Island
length 80.5 km
width 24 km
surface 1 308  km²
Highest elevation 126  m
Residents uninhabited

Lougheed Island is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands . It is located in the Canadian territory of Nunavut .

geography

The elongated island is 80.5 km long, but only a maximum of 24 km wide. Its area is 1308 km². The island is flat with hills, the height of which rarely exceeds 100 m. Together with Stupart Island , Edmund Walker Island, Grosvenor Island and Patterson Island, it forms the Findlay group of the Parry Islands . It lies at the southern end of the Prince Gustav Adolf Sea and is separated from Ellef Ringnes Island and King Christian Island in the northeast by the Maclean Strait. Bathurst Island is beyond Desbarats Strait to the south . The Byam-Martin Canal lies between Lougheed Island and its western neighbor islands in the southeast, Melville Island and Mackenzie King Island . Due to the year-round freezing of the surrounding waters, the island can only be reached by sea with strong icebreakers .

history

Lougheed Island is probably identical to "Findlay Island", which was sighted on April 27, 1853 by Edward Belcher's expedition. Vilhjálmur Stefánsson clarified during the Canadian Arctic Expedition from 1913 to 1918 that there are several islands that he precisely mapped. He named the largest after Alexander Lougheed , a Conservative politician and then a non-portfolio minister in the Canadian government. In August 1916, Stefánsson set up camp on the south-western tip of Lougheed Island for several weeks and explored the area from here.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicholas C. Matalas, Bernardo F. Grossling: Habitat and environment of islands: primary and supplemental island sets (PDF; 7.98 MB), US Geological Survey professional Paper 1590, Reston, Virginia 2002, ISBN 0-607-99508- 4 , accompanying CD-ROM (PDF; 27.57 MB), p. 181.
  2. ↑ The Atlas of Canada - Queen Elizabeth Islands ( Memento of October 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ↑ William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia , Vol. 1, ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , p. 384f (English)

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