MacColl Island is one of the many uninhabited

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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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. It is located at the confluence of

Hudson Strait Hudson Strait (french: Détroit d'Hudson) links the Atlantic Ocean and Labrador Sea to Hudson Bay in Canada. This strait lies between Baffin Island and Nunavik, with its eastern entrance marked by Cape Chidley in Newfoundland and Labrador an ...

and the

Labrador Sea The Labrador Sea (French: ''mer du Labrador'', Danish: ''Labradorhavet'') is an arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between the Labrador Peninsula and Greenland. The sea is flanked by continental shelves to the southwest, northwest, and northeast. I ...

. The island measures long and is

above sea level Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as '' orthometric heights''. The ...

. It is a member of the

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, situated west of and parallel to Lawson Island. Other islands in the immediate vicinity include Erhardt Island, Holdridge Island, King Island, Leading Island, and

Observation Island USNS ''Observation Island'' (T-AGM-23) was built as the Mariner-class merchant ship ''Empire State Mariner'' for the United States Maritime Commission, launched 15 August 1953, and operated by United States Lines upon delivery on 24 February 195 ...

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Islands of Hudson Strait Islands of the Labrador Sea Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region {{QikiqtaalukNU-geo-stub