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Somerset Island - Definition

Somerset Island within Nunavut
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Somerset Island within Nunavut

This article is about Somerset Island in Canada. See also Somerset Island, Bermuda.


Somerset Island is a large island in the Baffin Region of Nunavut, Canada, lying off the Boothia peninsula. It has an area of 9,570 square miles (24,786 km²).

Port Leopold on the island's northeast coast and Fort Ross on its southeastern were formerly Hudson's Bay Company outposts. The island is uninhabited.

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