Princess Royal Island (Nunavut)
| Princess Royal Island | ||
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| Waters | Belcher Canal ( Arctic Ocean ) | |
| Archipelago | Queen Elizabeth Islands | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 56 '53 " N , 94 ° 18' 27" W | |
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| length | 4.5 km | |
| width | 3.9 km | |
| surface | 9 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 143 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Princess Royal Island is an uninhabited island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Nunavut , Canada . The island is located about one kilometer off the north coast of Devon Island in Bere Bay, a bay of the Belcher Channel at the western exit of Norwegian Bay . It has roughly the shape of an equilateral triangle with an edge length of 4.5 kilometers and an area of 9 km². A cliff on its northwest coast is up to 143 meters high.
Edward Belcher discovered the island in search of the missing Franklin expedition . He first saw her from Exmouth Island on August 28, 1852 . On May 8 of the following year he took possession of the island for the British Crown and gave it its current name.
Web links
- Belcher Channel . Natural Resources Canada map at a scale of 1: 1,000,000
Individual evidence
- ^ Princess Royal Island , The Atlas of Canada - Toporama
- ^ Edward Belcher: The last of the Arctic voyages; being a narrative of the expedition in HMS Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher CB, in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852–53–54 . Volume 1, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 254 ff.