Cornwallis Island - Definition and Overview

Cornwallis Island within Nunavut

Cornwallis Island is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Baffin Region, Nunavut Territory of the Canadian Arctic. It lies to the west of Devon Island at 75°05'N 95°00'W and it has an area of about 6,995 km² and greatest length about 110 km.

The airport at Resolute (Qausuittuq) on the southern coast acts as a communications hub for the central arctic islands of Nunavut. This is Canada's second most northerly community.

Cornwallis Island was discovered by Sir William Edward Parry in 1819 and named for British Royal Navy admiral Sir William Cornwallis.

See hypolith.

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