Rowley Island is one of the
Canadian Arctic islands
The Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark).
Situated in the northern extremity of ...
in the
Qikiqtaaluk Region,
Nunavut. It is located in
Foxe Basin
Foxe Basin is a shallow oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula. For most of the year, it is blocked by sea ice (fast ice) and drift ice made up of multiple ice floes.
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and has an area of .
Although the island is uninhabited there is both an unmanned
Distant Early Warning Line base, called FOX-1 at , and an
Automated Surface Observing System
Airport weather stations are automated sensor suites which are designed to serve aviation and meteorological operations, weather forecasting and climatology. Automated airport weather stations have become part of the backbone of weather observi ...
.
It is named after the arctic explorer
Graham Westbrook Rowley.
References
External links
FOX-1 historical information
Islands of Foxe Basin
Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region
Former populated places in the Qikiqtaaluk Region
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