- Griffith Island (Nunavut)
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name = Griffith Island
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location =Northern Canada
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archipelago =Queen Elizabeth Islands Canadian Arctic Archipelago
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area = convert|145|km2|sqmi|abbr=on
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country = Canada
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country admin divisions = flag|Nunavut
country admin divisions title 1 =Qikiqtaaluk Region
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additional info =Griffith Island lies within the
Canadian Arctic Archipelago in theQikiqtaaluk Region ofnorthern Canada 's territory ofNunavut . It is one of the mid-channel islands in the western sector ofBarrow 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] Griffith Island lies directly across from theInuit hamlet Resolute on Cornwallis Island, separated by the 6.5 mi wide Resolute Passage. [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]Capt.
Horatio Austin , on board the "Resolute" and seeking the lost SirJohn Franklin expedition, wintered off Griffith Island in 1851. Explorations that winter by second master,George F. McDougall , includedMcDougall Sound , the waterway to the north of 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]Griffith Island is convert|18|km|mi|abbr=on long, convert|11|km|mi|abbr=on wide, [cite web |url=http://www.bartelby.org/69/96/G05196.html |title=Griffith Island |accessdate=2008-04-29 |date=2000 |publisher=" The Columbia Gazetteer of North America"] and convert|145|km2|sqmi|abbr=on in area. [cite web |url=http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/facts/islands.html |title=Queen Elizabeth Islands |accessdate=2008-04-29 |date=
2008-03-19 |publisher=nrcan.gc.ca]Since 1958, the southeast coast of Griffith Island has experienced uncommon change, from discontinuous flying spits to continuous fringing barriers. [cite web |url=http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:rUPxb0vjOjEJ:www.arcticnet-ulaval.ca/pdf/posters_2007/st-hilaire_et_al.pdf+%22Griffith+Island%22+arctic&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us&client=firefox-a |title=Arctic coastal dynamics under changing relative sea-level and environmental forcing, Canadian Arctic Archipelago |accessdate=2008-04-29 |last=St. Hilaire, D. |coauthors=; Bell, T.; Forbes, D.L.; and Taylor, R.B. |date=December 11-14, 2007 |work= |publisher=ArcticNet 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting. Collingwood, Ontario]
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