Loks Land Island

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name = Loks Land Island


image caption = Loks Land Island, Nunavut (red circle at right edge)
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location = Northern Canada
coordinates = coord|62|26|N|64|38|W|display=inline,title
archipelago = Canadian Arctic Archipelago
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area = convert|419|km2|sqmi|abbr=on
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country = Canada
country admin divisions title = Territory
country admin divisions = flag|Nunavut
country largest city = Iqaluit
country largest city population = 6,184
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population = Uninhabited
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ethnic groups = Inuit
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Loks Land Island is part of the Canadian arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada. It is located off the eastern tip of Baffin Island's Blunt Peninsula, close to the mouth of Frobisher Bay, at 62°26'N 64°38'W, and with an area of convert|419|km2|sqmi|abbr=on and a coastline of 206 km. The local Inuktitut name for the island is "Takuligjuaq".

Loks Land was the site of one of the stations in the Distant Early Warning Line radar defence network, and had the code number BAF-4A.

The island was discovered by Martin Frobisher and is named for Michael Lok, a London financier who was one of the patrons of Frobisher's Arctic expeditions of the 1570s. Frobisher's first expedition found ore which was purported to contain gold, leading to a second and third expedition which failed to find any of the precious metal. These later speculative ventures almost bankrupted Lok.

External links

* [http://www.civilization.ca/hist/frobisher/frsub04e.html Michael Lok]
* [http://www.lswilson.ca/dewline.htm#L DEW Line stations]