Nastapoka Islands

Nastapoka Islands
	Satellite image: southern section of the island chain can be seen on the left
Waters	Hudson Bay
Geographical location	56 ° 55 ′ N , 76 ° 50 ′ W Coordinates: 56 ° 55 ′ N , 76 ° 50 ′ W
Number of islands	18th

The Nastapoka Islands ( French Îles Nastapoka ) form a 165 km long chain of islands in the east of Hudson Bay . The nearly 5 km wide Nastapoka Sound separates the islands from the west coast of the Labrador Peninsula . The island chain consists of 18 larger islands. These reach heights of up to 115 m and widths of up to 4 km.

Politically, the islands belong to the Qikiqtaaluk region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut . It was previously believed that the island's arc could have been created by a meteorite impact . However, no breccia was found on the islands, so this thesis was rejected. Today it is believed that the striking shape of an arc of a circle was created by the collision of two mainland cores.

Islands of the island arc from north to south:

McTavish Island
Broughton Island
Nicholson Island
Davieau Island
Christie Island
Mowat Island
Gordon Island
Miller Island
Taylor Island
Gillies Island
Curran Island
Armstrong Island
Clarke Island
Luttit Island
Anderson Island
Ross Island
Belanger Island
Flint Island

Web links

Nastapoka Islands ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in the island encyclopedia www.oceandots.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ CS Beals: On the possibility of a catastrophic origin for the great arc of eastern Hudson Bay . In: CS Beals (Ed.): Science, History and Hudson Bay , Volume 2. Department of Energy Mines and Resources, Ottawa 1968, pp. 985-998.
↑ David W. Eaton, Fiona Darbyshire: Lithospheric architecture and tectonic evolution of the Hudson Bay region ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 2.03 MB) . In: Tectonophysics 480, 2010, pp. 1-22.

[1] CS Beals: On the possibility of a catastrophic origin for the great arc of eastern Hudson Bay . In: CS Beals (Ed.): Science, History and Hudson Bay , Volume 2. Department of Energy Mines and Resources, Ottawa 1968, pp. 985-998.

[2] David W. Eaton, Fiona Darbyshire: Lithospheric architecture and tectonic evolution of the Hudson Bay region ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 2.03 MB) . In: Tectonophysics 480, 2010, pp. 1-22.