Canadian Arctic Archipelago

The Canadian Arctic Archipelago, also known as just the Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago north of the Canadian mainland in the Arctic. There are about 36,563 islands which have much of the territory of Northern Canada – most of Nunavut and part of Northwest Territories.

Location of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

The archipelago has 94 major islands (bigger than 130 km²), including three of the world's ten biggest islands, and 36,469 minor islands. The bigger islands of the archipelago (over 10,000 km²) are:


NameLocation*AreaArea rankPopulation
(2001)
WorldCanada
Baffin Island NU507,451 km2 (195,928 sq mi)519,563
Victoria Island NT, NU217,291 km2 (83,897 sq mi)921,707
Ellesmere Island NU196,236 km2 (75,767 sq mi)103168
Banks Island NT70,028 km2 (27,038 sq mi)245114
Devon Island NU55,247 km2 (21,331 sq mi)2760
Axel Heiberg Island NU43,178 km2 (16,671 sq mi)3270
Melville Island NT, NU42,149 km2 (16,274 sq mi)3380
Southampton Island NU41,214 km2 (15,913 sq mi)349721
Prince of Wales Island NU33,339 km2 (12,872 sq mi)40100
Somerset Island NU24,786 km2 (9,570 sq mi)46120
Bathurst Island NU16,042 km2 (6,194 sq mi)54130
Prince Patrick Island NT15,848 km2 (6,119 sq mi)55140
King William Island NU13,111 km2 (5,062 sq mi)6115960
Ellef Ringnes Island NU11,295 km2 (4,361 sq mi)69160
Bylot Island NU11,067 km2 (4,273 sq mi)72170

* NT = Northwest Territories, NU = Nunavut

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