Table Island (Nunavut)

Table Island
Waters	Belcher Canal
Archipelago	Queen Elizabeth Islands
Geographical location	77 ° 13 ′ N , 95 ° 24 ′ W Coordinates: 77 ° 13 ′ N , 95 ° 24 ′ W
length	13.7 km
width	6 km
surface	59.8 km²
Highest elevation	193 m
Residents	uninhabited

Table Iceland is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut .

geography

Table Island forms with Exmouth Island and Ekins Island an archipelago that lies in the Belcher Channel between Devon Island in the south and Cornwall Island in the north. The island is elongated and oriented in a north-west-south-east direction. It is 13.7 km long, up to 6 km wide and up to 193 m high. From the central plateau, the terrain slopes steeply on all sides. In the north-west of the island lies the Londesborough Harbor, protected by a peninsula. The southeast tip of Table Islands is called Cape Ursula.

Fossil-containing limestone from the Central Triassic can be found on Table Island and its two neighboring islands .

history

Edward Belcher discovered the island in 1852 while searching for the missing Franklin expedition . The fossils found were later examined by John William Salter .

Web links

Table Island in the Atlas of Canada

Individual evidence

^ The Atlas of Canada
↑ Richard Owen : Note on some Remains of an Ichthyosaurus Discovered by Captain Sir Edward Belcher, CB, RN, at Exmouth Island, in lat. 77 ° 16 ′ N., long. 96 ° W . In: 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 2, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 389-391 (English).
^ Dale A. Russell : Mesozoic Vertebrates of Arctic Canada . In: CR Harington (Ed.): Canada's missing dimension. Science and history in the Canadian Arctic Islands . Volume 1, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa 1990, ISBN 0-660-13054-8 . Pp. 81-90 (English).
^ 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. 113 ff. (English).
^ JW Salter: Account of the Arctic Carboniferous Fossils . In: 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 2, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 377-389 (English).

[1] The Atlas of Canada

[Owen-2] Richard Owen : Note on some Remains of an Ichthyosaurus Discovered by Captain Sir Edward Belcher, CB, RN, at Exmouth Island, in lat. 77 ° 16 ′ N., long. 96 ° W . In: 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 2, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 389-391 (English).

[3] Dale A. Russell : Mesozoic Vertebrates of Arctic Canada . In: CR Harington (Ed.): Canada's missing dimension. Science and history in the Canadian Arctic Islands . Volume 1, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa 1990, ISBN 0-660-13054-8 . Pp. 81-90 (English).

[4] 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. 113 ff. (English).

[5] JW Salter: Account of the Arctic Carboniferous Fossils . In: 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 2, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 377-389 (English).