Lady Franklin Island

Lady Franklin Island
Native name:
Kitigtung
Lady Franklin Island
Lady Franklin Island
Geography
LocationDavis Strait
Coordinates62°56′N 63°44′W / 62.933°N 63.733°W / 62.933; -63.733 (lady Franklin Island)
ArchipelagoArctic Archipelago
Administration
Canada
NunavutNunavut
RegionQikiqtaaluk
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

Lady Franklin Island (Inuktitut: Kitigtung),[1] is an uninhabited Baffin Island offshore island located in the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The island lies in Davis Strait, 25 mi (40 km) from Hall Peninsula.[2] There are at least seven smaller, unnamed islands off its northwest shore.

It was named by Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall as a tribute to Sir John Franklin's wife Lady Franklin.[2]

The island offers an abundance of bears, caribou (tuktoo), ducks, seals, and walrus.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Lady Franklin Island". mapplanet.com. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  2. ^ a b c Hall, Charles Francis (1865). Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux : being the narrative of an expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862. New York: Harper & Brothers. pp. 308. OCLC 5357849. lady franklin island.
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