Air Force Island
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Air Force Island is an island in Nunavut, Canada located along the southwestern coast of Baffin Island at approximately . It measures 1720 square kilometers in size and is uninhabited.
The islands existence was first recorded in 1948, as were neighbouring Prince Charles Island and Foley Island, by a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) crew member, Albert-Ernest Tomkinson, navigating an Avro Lancaster. The island was named in recognition of the RCAF’s role in surveying the Canadian Arctic islands.
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