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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country admin divisions title 1 = Qikiqtaaluk Region
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Griffith 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] Griffith Island lies directly across from the Inuit 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 Sir John Franklin expedition, wintered off Griffith Island in 1851. Explorations that winter by second master, George F. McDougall, included McDougall 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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