- Source: Eglinton Island
Eglinton Island an uninhabited island of the Arctic Archipelago in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Eglinton is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. Located at 75°48'N 118°30'W, it measures 1,541 km2 (595 sq mi) in size, 73 kilometres (45 mi) long and 44 km (27 mi) wide in measurements. It lies on the north side of the M'Clure Strait, just south of the much larger Prince Patrick Island and is uninhabited with some human activity in the 1970s in the form of natural gas drilling.
The first European sighting of Eglinton Island was in 1853 by George Mecham, and explored by him and Francis Leopold McClintock in the spring of that year.
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References
Sources
Eglinton Island - Canada's Arctic
External links
Eglinton Island in the Atlas of Canada - Toporama; Natural Resources Canada
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- Kepulauan Ratu Elizabeth
- Pulau Somerset (Nunavut)
- Pulau Hans
- Eglinton Island
- List of islands by area
- Baffin Region
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- Queen Elizabeth Islands
- Eglinton
- Eglinton West station
- Line 5 Eglinton
- Arctic Archipelago
- List of islands of Canada
