Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Canadian Arctic Archipelago

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name = Canadian Arctic Archipelago


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location = Northern Canada
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total islands = 36,563
major islands = Baffin Island, Victoria Island, Ellesmere Island
area = convert|1424500|km2|sqmi|abbr=on
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country = Canada
country admin divisions title = Territories
country admin divisions = flag|Nunavut
flag|Northwest Territories
country largest city = Iqaluit, Nunavut
country largest city population = 6,184
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The Canadian Arctic Archipelago, also known as just the Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago north of the Canadian mainland in the Arctic. Situated in the northern extremity of North America and covering about km2 to mi2|num=1424500|abbr=yes|spell=Commonwealth|precision=0|wiki=yes, this group of 36,563 islands comprises much of the territory of Northern Canada – most of Nunavut and part of Northwest Territories.

The archipelago extends some km to mi|num=2400|abbr=yes|spell=Commonwealth|precision=0|wiki=yes longitudinally and km to mi|1900|abbr=yes from the mainland to Cape Columbia, the northernmost point on Ellesmere Island. It is bounded on the west by the Beaufort Sea; on the north by the Arctic Ocean; on the east by Greenland, Baffin Bay and Davis Strait; and on the south by Hudson Bay and the Canadian mainland. The various islands are separated from each other and the continental mainland by a series of waterways collectively known as the Northwestern Passages. Two large peninsulas, Boothia and Melville, extend northward from the mainland.

The archipelago contains 94 major islands (greater than km2 to mi2|130|abbr=yes|precision=0), including three of the world's ten largest islands, and 36,469 minor islands. The sizeable islands of the archipelago (over km2 to mi2|10000|abbr=yes, in order of descending size) are:

References

Marsh, James H., ed. 1988. " [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000292 Arctic Archipelago] " "The Canadian Encyclopedia". Toronto: Hurtig Publishers.

Further reading


* Aiken, S.G., M.J. Dallwitz, L.L. Consaul, et al. "Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, and Information Retrieval" [CD] . Ottawa: NRC Research Press; Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Nature, 2007. ISBN 978-0-660-19727-2.
* Aiken, S. G., Laurie Lynn Consaul, and M. J. Dallwitz. "Grasses of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago". Ottawa: Research Division, Canadian Museum of Nature, 1995.
* Bouchard, Giselle. "Freshwater Diatom Biogeography of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago". Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 2005. ISBN 0494014245
* Brown, Roger James Evan. "Permafrost in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago". National Research Council of Canada, Division of Building Research, 1972.
* Cota GF, LW Cooper, DA Darby, and IL Larsen. 2006. "Unexpectedly High Radioactivity Burdens in Ice-Rafted Sediments from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago". "The Science of the Total Environment". 366, no. 1: 253-61.
* Dunphy, Michael. "Validation of a modelling system for tides in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago". Canadian technical report of hydrography and ocean sciences, 243. Dartmouth, N.S.: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2005.
* Hamilton, Paul B., Konrad Gajewski, David E. Atkinson, and David R.S. Lean. 2001. "Physical and Chemical Limnology of 204 Lakes from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago". "Hydrobiologia". 457, no. 1/3: 133-148.
* Mi︠a︡rss, Tiĭu, Mark V. H. Wilson, and R. Thorsteinsson. "Silurian and Lower Devonian Thelodonts and Putative Chondrichthyans from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago". Special papers in palaeontology, no. 75. London: Palaeontological Association, 2006. ISBN 0901702994
* Michel, C Ingram, R G, and L R Harris. 2006. "Variability in Oceanographic and Ecological Processes in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago". "Progress in Oceanography". 71, no. 2: 379.
* Porsild, A.E. "The Vascular Plants of the Western Canadian Arctic Archipelago". Ottawa: E. Cloutier, Queen's printer, 1955.
* Rae, R. W. "Climate of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago". Toronto: Canada Dept. of Transport, 1951.
* Thorsteinsson, R., and Ulrich Mayr. "The Sedimentary Rocks of Devon Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago". Ottawa, Canada: Geological Survey of Canada, 1987. ISBN 0660123193
* Van der Baaren, Augustine, and S. J. Prinsenberg. "Geostrophic transport estimates from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago". Dartmouth, N.S.: Ocean Sciences Division, Maritimes Region, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 2002.

ee also

* List of islands by area
* List of islands of Canada
* List of Canadian islands by area
* British Arctic Territories


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