Winter Island (Kitikmeot)

For other uses, see Winter Island.

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Geography
Location	Northern Canada
Coordinates	67°43′N102°15′W / 67.717°N 102.250°W / 67.717; -102.250 [1]
Archipelago	Arctic Archipelago
Administration
Canada
Territory	Nunavut
Region	Kitikmeot
Demographics
Population	0

Winter Island is an uninhabited island of the Arctic Archipelago in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut. It is located at the mouth of the Perry River in the Queen Maud Gulf Migratory Bird Sanctuary where tundra swan have been known to nest in limited numbers. ^[3] In 1822 William Parry, teamed up with two local Inuit to map places around the Melville Peninsula in the greater Canadian Arctic which included Winter Island. ^[4]

References

1. "Winter Island". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada.
2. "Winter Island". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada.
3. Manning, T. H. (1943). "Notes on the Birds of Southampton Island, Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula" . The Auk. 60 (4): 504–536. doi:10.2307/4079415. JSTOR   4079415.
4. Cole, Daniel G.; Hart, E. Richard (2021-06-08). "The Importance of Indigenous Cartography and Toponymy to Historical Land Tenure and Contributions to Euro/American/Canadian Cartography". ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 10 (6): 397. Bibcode:2021IJGI...10..397C. doi: 10.3390/ijgi10060397 . ISSN   2220-9964.