Winter Island (Nunavut)

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Winter Island
Geography
Location Northern Canada
Coordinates 66°16′N 083°04′W / 66.267°N 83.067°W / 66.267; -83.067 (Winter Island)Coordinates: 66°16′N 083°04′W / 66.267°N 83.067°W / 66.267; -83.067 (Winter Island)
Archipelago Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Country
Canada
Territory  Nunavut
Demographics
Population Uninhabited

Winter Island is an uninhabited island of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in Quikqtaaluk, Nunavut. It lies in the Foxe Basin with Hoppner Strait to the northwest. Winter Island is south of the Melville Peninsula, separated from it by Lyon Inlet. William Edward Parry wintered here at the end of 1821.


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