Truro Island
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| Waters | Arctic Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Queen Elizabeth Islands | |
| Geographical location | 75 ° 17 ′ N , 97 ° 10 ′ W | |
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| length | 12.5 km | |
| width | 2 km | |
| surface | 21 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 144 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Truro Island is an uninhabited island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Canadian territory of Nunavut . It is located in McDougall Sound between Bathurst Island and Cornwallis Island . The island is separated from Brooman Point on Bathurst Island by the four kilometer wide Akulliak Passage. Truro Island has a length of 12.5 kilometers and a width of two kilometers and thus an area of 21 km².
In the past, Truro Island was the location of a measuring station that was supposed to collect data on the earth's atmosphere , ocean currents and changes in the ice .