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100th Meridian West
The meridian 100° west of the Prime Meridian of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 100th meridian west forms a great circle with the 80th meridian east. In the United States, this meridian roughly marks the boundary between the semi-arid climate in the west and the humid continental and humid subtropical climates in the east and is used as shorthand to refer to that arid-humid boundary. The meridian coincides with the approximate center of the continental United States, and is featured prominently on the cover of the Charter of the United Nations. From Pole to Pole Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 100th meridian west passes through: : United States In the United States the meridian 100° west of Greenwich forms the eastern border of the Texas panhandle with Oklahoma (which traces its ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Meridian
A prime meridian is an arbitrarily chosen meridian (geography), meridian (a line of longitude) in a geographic coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°. On a spheroid, a prime meridian and its anti-meridian (the 180th meridian in a degree (angle), 360°-system) form a great ellipse. This divides the body (e.g. Earth) into hemispheres of Earth, two hemispheres: the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere (for an east-west notational system). For Earth's prime meridian, various conventions have been used or advocated in different regions throughout history. Earth's current international standard prime meridian is the IERS Reference Meridian. It is derived, but differs slightly, from the Prime meridian (Greenwich), Greenwich Meridian, the previous standard. Longitudes for the Earth and Moon are measured from their prime meridian (at 0°) to 180° east and west. For all other Solar System bodies, longitude is measured from 0° (their prime meridian) to 360� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meighen Island
Meighen Island is an uninhabited member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, part of the Arctic Archipelago, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Features and history Located at , it measures in size and is topped with an ice cap. The island is permanently icebound, and its northwestern coast faces onto the open Arctic Ocean. Unlike many Canadian Arctic islands, no traces of Inuit or Thule people, Thule camps have been found, suggesting the island has never been inhabited, likely due to its extreme northern latitude. In 1909, two Inuit who had participated in Frederick Cook's polar expedition provided a map to Robert Peary that showed they had travelled and spent a night on a then unknown island with the position of Meighen Island. The map and testimony of the Inuit in question were published in an article by Peary in the ''Chicago Daily Tribune''. In 1916, Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1916, Canadian Arctic Expedition sighted and landed on Meigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hat Island (Victoria Strait)
Putulik, formerly Hat Island, is a small (about ) uninhabited island located in the Kitikmeot of Nunavut, Canada. The island is situated in Victoria Strait (Queen Maud Gulf) approximately southeast of Victoria Island and southwest of King William Island. The Requisite Channel separates the island from Amundsen Island, the larger of the Nordenskiöld Islands. Hat Island (CAM-B) is a former Distant Early Warning Line and current North Warning System site The Canadian government The Government of Canada (), formally His Majesty's Government (), is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada. The term ''Government of Canada'' refers specifically to the executive, which includes ministers of the Crown ( ...'s Contaminated Sites directorate has determined Hat Island to be a contaminated site in need of future remediation. Another smaller Hat Island is also in Nunavut. References Uninhabited islands of Kitikmeot Region Former populated places ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Maud Gulf
Queen Maud Gulf lies between the northern coast of the mainland and the southeastern corner of Victoria Island in Nunavut, Canada. At its western end lies Cambridge Bay, leading to Dease Strait; to the east lies Simpson Strait; and to the north, Victoria Strait. It is home to the Queen Maud Gulf Migratory Bird Sanctuary. History In 1839, it was crossed by Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson. It was named by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in 1905 for the Norwegian queen Maud of Wales. The wreck of from Franklin's lost expedition of 1845 to find the Northwest Passage was found in 2014. The wreck lies at the bottom of the eastern portion of Queen Maud Gulf, west of O'Reilly Island. Islands Islands in the Queen Maud Gulf include: * Qikiqtaryuaq * King William Island * Royal Geographical Society Island See also * Royal eponyms in Canada In Canada, a number of sites and structures are named for royal individuals, whether a member of the past French royal f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Geographical Society Island
The Royal Geographical Society Islands (Inuinnaqtun: ''Hiurarjuaq''; "big sand") formerly the Royal Geographical Society Group are a group of islands lying west of King William Island in Victoria Strait, within the Queen Maud Gulf, in the Northern Canada, north Canadian territory of Nunavut. The largest island, Royal Geographical Society Island, has an area of . Davidson Point is named after geographer George Davidson (geographer), George Davidson. The islands were named by Captain Roald Amundsen for the Royal Geographical Society, a sponsor. According to Amundsen the islands had been reported by John Rae (explorer), John Rae, who had not recognised them as islands. References Uninhabited islands of Kitikmeot Region Royal Geographical Society {{KitikmeotNU-island-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Strait
Victoria Strait is a strait in northern Canada that lies in Nunavut off the mainland in the Arctic Ocean. It is between Victoria Island to the west and King William Island to the east. From the north, the strait links the M'Clintock Channel and the Larsen Sound with the Queen Maud Gulf to the south. The strait is about long and anywhere from wide. The strait is wide, with almost no islands, save for the rather large Royal Geographical Society Island near the Queen Maud Gulf at the extreme south of the strait. The strait has never been comprehensively surveyed, however, charted portions indicate several patches where the water is only deep. Ships drawing up to have navigated the strait, but it is made very difficult by the ice. Most of the year the strait is covered with rough, heavy ice. Much of this is polar ice which has flowed down the M'Clintock Channel from the Viscount Melville Sound. Large-scale breakup of the ice in the strait begins by late July and continues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gateshead Island
Umingmalik formerly Gateshead Island is an island located in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada. Located in M'Clintock Channel, the area of Gateshead Island is around . It is an important polar bear denning area. This is a different island than the one visited by Richard Collinson, commanding HMS Enterprise, while searching for John Franklin Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. After serving in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, he led two expeditions into the Northern Canada, Canadia .... References Uninhabited islands of Kitikmeot Region {{KitikmeotNU-island-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larsen Sound
Larsen Sound is an Arctic waterway in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located south of Prince of Wales Island, west of the Boothia Peninsula, north of King William Island and east of Gateshead Island. To the west and north-west the sound opens into the M'Clintock Channel, to the north-east it opens into Peel Sound, to the south-east into James Ross Strait, and to the south-west into Victoria Strait Victoria Strait is a strait in northern Canada that lies in Nunavut off the mainland in the Arctic Ocean. It is between Victoria Island to the west and King William Island to the east. From the north, the strait links the M'Clintock Channel an .... Sounds of Kitikmeot Region {{KitikmeotNU-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
M'Clintock Channel
M'Clintock Channel (also spelled McClintock Channel) is located in the territory of Nunavut, Canada. The channel, an arm of the Arctic Ocean, divides Victoria Island from Prince of Wales Island. This channel is named after Sir Francis McClintock, an Irish explorer in the British Royal Navy, famous for his Canadian Arctic explorations. The channel is long, and between wide, making it one of the largest channels in the Arctic Archipelago. The channel connects Ommanney Bay and Parry Channel to the northwest and Larsen Sound to the southeast. Umingmalik is on the southeast boundary of the channel. There was another M'Clintock Channel located between Hudson Island and Hall Island, to the east of Loks Land Loks Land is an uninhabited island in the Arctic Archipelago in Nunavut, Canada. It is located off the eastern tip of Baffin Island's Blunt Peninsula, close to the mouth of Frobisher Bay. It has an area of and a coastline of 206 km. The l ... at . However, the na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Of Wales Island (Nunavut)
Prince of Wales Island () is an Arctic island in Nunavut, Canada. This uninhabited island is one of the larger members of the Arctic Archipelago, it lies between Victoria Island and Somerset Island (Nunavut), Somerset Island and is south of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. For administrative purposes, it is divided between Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtaaluk and Kitikmeot Region, Kitikmeot regions. There are no permanent settlements on the island. Geography It is a low tundra-covered island with an irregular coastline deeply indented by Ommanney Bay in the west and Browne Bay in the east. Ommanney Bay is named after Erasmus Ommanney, Admiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney of the Royal Navy who explored the area as part of the search for Franklin's lost expedition. Its area has been estimated at . Prince of Wales Island is the list of islands by area, world's 40th largest island and the List of Canadian islands by area, 10th largest in Canada. Its highest known point—with an elevation of — ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parry Channel
The Parry Channel (, ) is a natural waterway through the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Its eastern two-thirds lie in the territory of Nunavut, while its western third (west of 110° West) lies in the Northwest Territories. It runs east to west, connecting Baffin Bay in the east with the Beaufort Sea in the west. Its eastern end is the only practical entrance to the Northwest Passage. Its western end would be a natural exit from the archipelago were it not filled with ice. The channel separates the Queen Elizabeth Islands to the north from the rest of Nunavut. Named parts of the Channel are, from east to west, Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait, Viscount Melville Sound and the McClure Strait. On the south are Baffin Island, Admiralty Inlet and the Brodeur Peninsula of Baffin Island, Prince Regent Inlet which leads to the large Gulf of Boothia, Somerset Island, Peel Sound which is the main route south, Prince of Wales Island, the ice-choked M'Clintock Channel, Victoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathurst Island (Canada)
Bathurst Island is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Nunavut, Canada. It is a member of the Arctic Archipelago. An uninhabited island, the area is estimated at , long and from to to wide, making it Canada's 13th largest island. It is located between Devon Island and Cornwallis Island in the east, and Melville Island in the west. Four small islands of Cameron, Vanier, Massey and Alexander lie in its northwest. The island is low-lying with few parts higher than in elevation. The highest point is at Stokes Mountain in the Stokes Range. This in turn forms part of the Arctic Cordillera mountain system. Good soil conditions produce abundant vegetation and support a more prolific wildlife population than other Arctic islands. The island contains both the International Biological Program site Polar Bear Pass and Qausuittuq National Park. History The island was first inhabited by Independence I culture peoples around 2000 BC. They were followed by Independence II, Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
