The Spicer Islands are an uninhabited island group 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. Th ...

, within

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

, in the

Canadian territory Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North America—New Brunswick, Nov ...

Nunavut Nunavut is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' and the Nunavut Land Claims Agr ...

. The

Melville Peninsula Melville Peninsula is a large peninsula in the Canadian Arctic north of Hudson Bay. To the east is Foxe Basin and to the west the Gulf of Boothia. To the north the Fury and Hecla Strait separates it from Baffin Island. To the south Repulse Ba ...

is to the west,

Prince Charles Island Prince Charles Island is a large, low-lying island in Canada. With an area of , it is the List of islands by area, world's 77th largest island and the List of Canadian islands by area, 19th largest island in Canada. It is located in Foxe Basin, o ...

to the east, Rowley Island to the north. The two main islands are North Spicer Island and South Spicer Island. They are very low-lying and swampy. Another set of (smaller) Spicer Islands lies off the south coast of

Baffin Island Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second-largest island in the Americas (behind Greenland), and the fifth-largest island in the world. Its area is (slightly smal ...

, in Hudson's Strait, near

Wharton Harbour Wharton may refer to: Education * Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States * Wharton County Junior College, in Wharton, Texas, United States * Paul R. Wharton High School, in Tampa, Florida, Un ...

and Chudliasi Bay.

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Spicer Islands
in the

Atlas of Canada The Atlas of Canada () is an online atlas published by Natural Resources Canada that has information on every city, town, village, and hamlet in Canada. It was originally a print atlas, with its first edition being published in 1906 by geographer ...

- Toporama; Natural Resources Canada
Spicer Islands (Hudson's Strait)
in the

- Toporama; Natural Resources Canada Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region {{QikiqtaalukNU-island-stub