Eight Bears Island

Eight Bears Island
Geography
Location	Northern Canada
Coordinates	77°6′2″N 113°22′10″W / 77.10056°N 113.36944°W / 77.10056; -113.36944 (Eight Bears Island)Coordinates: 77°6′2″N 113°22′10″W / 77.10056°N 113.36944°W / 77.10056; -113.36944 (Eight Bears Island)
Archipelago	Queen Elizabeth Islands Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Country
Canada
Territory	Northwest Territories
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Eight Bears Island is an island of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, specifically of the Parry Islands subgroup of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. It belongs to the Northwest Territories, Canada. It lies just east of Fitzwilliam Owen Island, south-west of the Ballantyne Strait. It is roughly half-way between Mackenzie King Island (to the north-east) and Emerald Isle (to the south-west).

External link

Eight Bears Island in the Atlas of Canada - Toporama; Natural Resources Canada

Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut and Northwest Territories, Canada

Ellesmere Island:	Ellesmere

Parry Islands (major):	Devon Melville Bathurst Prince Patrick Cornwallis Mackenzie King Borden Cornwall Eglinton Graham Lougheed Byam Martin Île Vanier Cameron Brock North Kent Emerald Isle Alexander Massey Little Cornwallis Coburg Helena Baillie-Hamilton Griffith Hoved Lowther Buckingham

Parry Islands (minor):	Beechey Berkeley Browne Cheyne Cocked Hat Crescent Des Voeux Dundas Edmund Walker Eight Bears Ekins Fairholme Fitzwilliam Owen Findlay Group Grosvenor Hans (disputed by Denmark) Houston Stewart Hyde Parker Île Marc John Barrow Margaret Nookap Norman Lockyer Patterson Philpots Pim Princess Royal Skraeling Stupart Table Thor Truro

Sverdrup Islands (major):	Axel Heiberg Ellef Ringnes Amund Ringnes King Christian Meighen Stor

Sverdrup Islands (minor):	Fay Gretha Haig-Thomas Hat Ulvingen

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