Lowther Island

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name = Lowther Island


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country admin divisions title 1 = Qikiqtaaluk Region
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Lowther Island lies within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Canada's territory of Nunavut. It is one of the mid-channel islands in the western sector of Barrow Strait. [cite journal |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=J9KK4p5Fb6AC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=%22Lowther+Island%22+&source=web&ots=ZGicHJqC9w&sig=sy8Fn0X5Yh3RxZlWApV_yfQJm8E&hl=en |page=101 |title=Canadian Yearbook of International Law |last=Bourne |first=Charles B. |year=1963 |publisher=Publication Centre, University of British Columbia |location=Vancouver |oclc=2442067] Bathurst Island and Cornwallis Island are to the north, while Prince of Wales Island is to the south. [cite book |pages=7 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=bYMpwN0COjAC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=%22barrow+strait%22&source=web&ots=cPXInuBFXz&sig=hJvL_jXjRy6IroXxtkP3DM-pmhE&hl=en |title=The Northwest Passage: Arctic Straits |last=Pharand |first=Donat |authorlink= |coauthors=Legault, L.H. |year=1984 |publisher=Martinus NijhoffPublishers |isbn=9024729793] The island is clustered within a group of uninhabited islands. It is 15.5 miles northeast of Young Island, separated by the Kettle Passage, a shipping route, and 13 miles southeast of Garrett Island, separated by Hayes Channel.

Lowther Island is 17 mi (27 km) long, 2—6 mi (3—10 km) wide, [cite web |url=http://bartleby.net/69/20/L06820.html |title=Lowther Island |accessdate=2008-04-28 |date=2000 |work= |publisher= The Columbia Gazetteer of North America] and 145 km². It is rimmed by raised beaches, the highest being at 106.5 m. above sea level. Gourdeau Point is on the island's south side, and Lowther Shoal is to the south/southeast. [cite web |url=http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/bitstream/1957/7495/1/DR_no_163.pdf |title=Physical Oceanographic Observations from the Resolute 1995 Ice Camp, Barrow Strait |accessdate=2008-04-28 |last=Crawford |first=G. |coauthors=Padman |date=L. |format=pdf |pages=39-40 |publisher=Oregon State University]

History

The island is named after a relative of Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (who visited Lowther Island himself), that worked for the Hudson's Bay Company. [cite book |pages=229 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=I0cyKlq5cLwC&pg=PA323&lpg=PA323&dq=%22Lowther+Island%22+Lord&source=web&ots=WaAH3P1HQN&sig=CNl6DmaJKu_ViC5hX3UuAlH4KfE&hl=en#PPA229,M1 |title=Contemporary Personalities |last=Birkenhead |first=Frederick E. |year=1977
publisher=Ayer Publishing |location= |isbn=0836900618]

In August 1852, ÉMile-Frédéric de Bray, searching for Sir John Franklin, spent a week at Lowther Island and close-by Griffith Island. [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=6N0oYtQDxS0C&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=%22Lowther+Island%22&source=web&ots=8UEkTAr2fV&sig=Lw5rgFagTzGRi0F3vFPBDwx3adQ&hl=en#PPA50,M1 |pages=48-50 |last=Bray, E. F. d., & Barr, W. |year=1992 |title=A Frenchman in search of Franklin: de Bray's Arctic journal, 1852-1854" |location=Toronto |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=0802028136] The island was also visited by Francis Leopold McClintock as part of Capt. Henry Kellett's 1852 to 1854 expedition. [cite book |title=Ordeal by ice; the search for the Northwest Passage |last=Mowat |first=Farley |year=1973 |publisher=McClelland and Stewart Ltd |location=Toronto |format=The Fate of Franklin |pages=288 |oclc=1391959]

References

* [http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/canada/map/m802879/lowther_island.html Coordinates & Location type]

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