Amund Ringnes Island is one of the Sverdrup Islands in the

Qikiqtaaluk Region The Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtani Region (Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ ) or Baffin Region is the easternmost, northernmost, and southernmost administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. Qikiqtaaluk is the traditional Inuktitut name f ...

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, Canada. It is located in the

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, between 78 and 79 degrees of

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. It lies east of

Ellef Ringnes Island Ellef Ringnes Island is one of the Sverdrup Islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. A member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and Arctic Archipelago, it is located in the Arctic Ocean, east of Borden Island, and west of Amund Ringne ...

, west of

Axel Heiberg Island Axel Heiberg Island ( iu, ᐅᒥᖕᒪᑦ ᓄᓈᑦ, ) is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. Located in the Arctic Ocean, it is the 32nd largest island in the world and Canada's seventh largest island. Accordin ...

Hassel Sound Hassel Sound is an uninhabited natural waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It separates Ellef Ringnes Island to the west from Amund Ringnes Island Amund Ringnes Island is one of the Sverdrup Islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, N ...

separates Amund Ringnes Island from Ellef Ringnes Island.

Hendriksen Strait Hendriksen Strait () is a natural waterway through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. It separates Amund Ringnes Island (to the north) from Cornwall Island (to the south). To the east, the sound opens into Norwegian Bay ...

is to the south, as is Cornwall Island. Norwegian Bay is to the east, as is

Haig-Thomas Island Haig-Thomas Island is one of the Sverdrup Islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Massey Sound, between Amund Ringnes Island and Axel Heiberg Island. It is also a member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and the Arctic Archip ...

. To the north lies

Peary Channel The Peary Channel is a waterway in the territory of Nunavut. It is an arm of the Arctic Ocean, and it spreads southeast between Meighen Island to the north, Axel Heiberg Island to the east, Amund Ringnes Island to the south, and Ellef Ringnes Isl ...

. The island has an area of in size, making it the 111th largest island in the world, and Canada's 25th largest island. The island was named by

Otto Sverdrup Otto Neumann Knoph Sverdrup (31 October 1854, in Bindal, Helgeland – 26 November 1930) was a Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer. Early and personal life He was born in Bindal as a son of farmer Ulrik Frederik Suhm Sverdrup (1833–1914) ...

for Oslo brewer

Amund Ringnes Amund Ringnes may refer to: *Amund Ringnes Island *Amund Ringnes (brewery owner, 1840) *Amund Ringnes (brewery owner, 1905) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ringnes, Amund ...

, one of the sponsors of his expedition. He first sighted it in 1900. The island was claimed by

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of ...

from 1902 until the claim was relinquished in 1930.

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Amund Ringnes Island at The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000.

University of Guelph

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Amund Ringnes Island
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- Toporama; Natural Resources Canada {{Authority control Islands of the Queen Elizabeth Islands Sverdrup Islands Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region

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