Kendall Island

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Kendall Island is one of the irregularly shaped, uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is located in Mackenzie Bay [1] at the northern tip of the Mackenzie River Delta. Richards Island is to the southwest of Kendall Island. [2] Kugmallit Bay is bounded by Garry, Pelly Island and Kendall Islands. [3] The northeast portion of the island is high. [4]

It is situated within the Inuvialuit Settlement Region and is notable for the Kendall Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary, an important waterfowl and shorebird breeding and staging ground. [5] It was named by John Franklin after the English hydrographer Edward Nicholas Kendall. [6] The Canadian ornithologist J. Dewey Soper visited the island less than a year before his retirement. [7]

References

  1. ↑ Bredin, T.F. (1962). ""Whale Island" and the Mackenzie Delta: Charted Errors and Unmapped Discoveries 1789 to 1850" (PDF). Arctic. 15 (1). Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary: 58. doi:10.14430/arctic3557.
  2. ↑ "69.49,-135.288(Kendall Island)" . Retrieved September 17, 2010.
  3. ↑ Berkes, Fikret (2005). Breaking ice: renewable resource and ocean management in the Canadian north. Vol. 1. Arctic Institute of North America. University of Calgary Press. p. 99. ISBN   1-55238-159-5.
  4. ↑ Great Britain Admiralty, Edwin J. De Haven, United States Navy Dept, Hudson's Bay Company (1852). Arctic expedition: Further correspondence and proceedings connected with the Arctic expedition. G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode. p. 35.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ "Kendall Island Sanctuary, Other Critical Bird Habitat Threatened by Mackenzie Gas Project". Nature Canada. January 17, 2006. Retrieved September 17, 2010.
  6. ↑ Franklin, Sir John; Richardson, Sir John (1828). Narrative of a second expedition to the shores of the polar seas, in the years 1825,1826, and 1827. Carey, Lea and Carey. p.  49. name kendall.
  7. ↑ Burnett, James Alexander (2003). A Passion for Wildlife: The History of the Canadian Wildlife Service . UBC Press. p.  20. ISBN   0-7748-0961-2. kendall Island.

69°29′24″N135°17′17″W / 69.490°N 135.288°W / 69.490; -135.288

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