Lowther Island
| Lowther Island Nannurqsiurqvik |
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| Waters | Arctic Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Parry Islands , Queen Elizabeth Islands | |
| Geographical location | 74 ° 33 ′ N , 97 ° 29 ′ W | |
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| length | 20 km | |
| width | 9 km | |
| surface | 145 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 162 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Lowther Iceland ( Inuktitut Nannurqsiurqvik ) is one of the Parry Islands in the group of the Queen Elizabeth Islands on Canadian territory of Nunavut .
geography
The island is located in Barrow Strait on the 28 km wide Kettle Passage , by which it is separated from the southwestern Young Island . Little Garrett Island in the northwest is even closer to her, behind the Hayes Channel . To the east and northeast - off the coast of Cornwallis Island - are Griffith Island , Somerville Island and Browne Island . Lowther Island is 20 km long in the southwest-northeast direction and a maximum of 9 km wide. The island is relatively flat. The highest point is 162 m above sea level. The island is mainly surrounded by pebble beaches, often with upscale old beach lines.
Wildlife
There is a small colony of ice gulls to the southeast of Lowther Island . Arctic foxes , wolves and occasionally polar bears give birth to their young on the island. Caribou and musk ox have also been spotted on Lowther Island. Ringed seals raise their offspring on the annual ice in the east of the island .
history
The island was discovered on August 24, 1819 by William Edward Parry and named after William Lowther, Viscount Lowther (1757-1844). The first Europeans to set foot on the island came in sleds from Horatio Thomas Austin's ships, which wintered between Cornwallis Island and Griffith Island in 1850–1851 in search of the missing Franklin expedition . In August 1852, the HMS Resolute under Henry Kellett anchored off Lowther Island for a few days.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Atlas of Canada - Queen Elizabeth Islands ( Memento of October 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ a b Map 68e , Northern Land Use Information Series (NLUIS)
- ↑ a b Dominique St-Hilair-Gravel, Trevor J. Bell, Donald L. Forbes: Raised Gravel Beaches as Proxy Indicators of Past Sea-ice and Wave Conditions, Lowther Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago (PDF; 2.9 MB). In: Arctic 63 (2), 2010, pp. 213-226 (English).
- ↑ Lowther Island, Nunavut . The Atlas of Canada - Toporama.
- ↑ TG Smith, K. Hay, D. Taylor, R. Greendale: Ringed Seal Breeding Habitat in Viscount Melville Sound, Barrow Strait and Peel Sound (PDF; 3.3 MB), AIPP REPORT 1978 (English)
- ^ 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 . Murray, 1821, p. 56 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (English)
- ^ William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia . tape 1 . ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 67 ( limited preview in Google Book search). (English)
- ^ Émile Frédéric de Bray: A Frenchman in Search of Franklin. De Bray's Arctic Journal, 1852-1854 . University of Toronto Press, 1992, ISBN 0-8020-2813-6 , pp. 48 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search). (English)
