Kendall Island

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.. ""Whale Island" and the Mackenzie Delta: Charted Errors and Unmapped Discoveries 1789 to 1850". Arctic (Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary) 15 (1): 58. http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic15-1-51.pdf. 
  2. ^ "69.49,-135.288(Kendall Island)". http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=69.49,-135.288&spn=0.1,0.1&t=m&q=69.49,-135.288%28Kendall%20Island%29. Retrieved 17 September 2010. 
  3. ^ Berkes, Fikret (2005). Breaking ice: renewable resource and ocean management in the Canadian north. 1. Arctic Institute of North America. University of Calgary Press. p. 99. ISBN 1552381595. http://books.google.com/books?id=IKt--FmDOMAC&pg=PA99&dq=%22kendall+Island%22&hl=en&ei=CueSTKHoAYeesQOryPC_Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22kendall%20Island%22&f=false. 
  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. http://books.google.com/books?id=yEVIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA35&dq=%22kendall+Island%22&hl=en&ei=CueSTKHoAYeesQOryPC_Cg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22kendall%20Island%22&f=false. 
  5. ^ "Kendall Island Sanctuary, Other Critical Bird Habitat Threatened by Mackenzie Gas Project". Nature Canada. January 17, 2006. http://www.naturecanada.ca/newsroom_jan_17_06_kendall.asp. Retrieved 17 September 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. http://books.google.com/books?id=ilxO3AjGThcC&pg=PA211&lpg=PA211&dq=kendall+%22wollaston+land%22&source=bl&ots=CgoAPFRiek&sig=3KVb3wUPG28a7SkveUVYJBYjRSQ&hl=en&ei=XQGPTOeqNODsnQepwdXaDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CCsQ6AEwCDgU#v=snippet&q=name%20kendall&f=false. 
  7. ^ Burnett, James Alexander (2003). A Passion for Wildlife: The History of the Canadian Wildlife Service. UBC Press. p. 20. ISBN 0774809612. http://books.google.com/books?id=BXX9tB1ljrUC&pg=PA20&dq=%22kendall+Island%22&hl=en&ei=QO-STMjCMpK2sAOLx4j6Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=%22kendall%20Island%22&f=false.