Bjarnason Island

Bjarnason Island

Geography
Location	Northern Canada
Coordinates	80°40′N 95°30′W / 80.667°N 95.500°W / 80.667; -95.500 (Bjarnason Island)Coordinates: 80°40′N 95°30′W / 80.667°N 95.500°W / 80.667; -95.500 (Bjarnason Island)
Archipelago	Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Country
Canada
Territory	Nunavut
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Bjarnason Island is an island of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. It lies in the Arctic Ocean, north-west of Axel Heiberg Island.

Bjarnason Island was named after Matt Bjarnason by Dr. Raymond (Ray) Thorsteinsson of the Geological Survey of Canada in the early 1970s. Matt had just graduated from the University of Calgary and was one month into his new job working for Texaco when he was killed in a helicopter crash.^{[citation needed]}