List_of_Canadian_islands_by_area

List of Canadian islands by area

Overview of Canada's largest islands

This is a list of Canadian islands as ordered by area. It includes all 50 islands with an area greater than 1,000 km² (390 sq mi). The total area of these islands is 1,545,444 km².

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Rank	World rank	Name	Area (km²)	Area (sq mi)	Territory or province	Permanent population (2016)	Notes	Refs
1	5	Baffin Island	507,451	195,928	Nunavut	13,148	Population does not include Kinngait and Qikiqtarjuaq. Both lie on small islands just off the coast of Baffin Island.	^[1]^[2]
2	8	Victoria Island	217,291	83,897	Northwest Territories, Nunavut	2,162	Contains the world's largest island within an island within an island.	^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]
3	10	Ellesmere Island	196,236	75,767	Nunavut	191	Population includes Grise Fiord, Alert and Eureka.	^[1]^[2]
4	16	Newfoundland	108,860	42,030	Newfoundland and Labrador	492,519	The largest island in Canada outside the Arctic. Population obtained by subtracting the population of Labrador from the total population.	^[1]^[5]^[6]
5	24	Banks Island	70,028	27,038	Northwest Territories	113		^[1]^[3]
6	27	Devon Island	55,247	21,331	Nunavut	0	The largest uninhabited island on Earth.	^[1]
7	32	Axel Heiberg Island	43,178	16,671	Nunavut	0		^[1]
8	33	Melville Island	42,149	16,274	Northwest Territories, Nunavut	0		^[1]
9	34	Southampton Island	41,214	15,913	Nunavut	891		^[1]^[2]
10	40	Prince of Wales Island	33,339	12,872	Nunavut	0		^[1]
11	43	Vancouver Island	31,285	12,079	British Columbia	813,543		^[1]^[7]
12	46	Somerset Island	24,786	9,570	Nunavut	0	Site of Fort Ross, Nunavut, last trading post established by the Hudson's Bay Company.	^[1]
13	54	Bathurst Island	16,042	6,194	Nunavut	0	Site of Brooman Point Village, a Dorset, Paleo-Eskimo and Thule village.	^[1]
14	55	Prince Patrick Island	15,848	6,119	Northwest Territories	0	Home of the now abandoned Mould Bay Weather Station.	^[1]
15	61	King William Island	13,111	5,062	Nunavut	1,324	John Franklin abandoned his ships in the area.	^[1]^[2]
16	68	Ellef Ringnes Island	11,295	4,361	Nunavut	0	Home of Isachsen, a formerly staffed weather station, but now an Automated Surface Observing System	^[1]
17	71	Bylot Island	11,067	4,273	Nunavut	0	Although uninhabited Inuit from Pond Inlet travel to the island.	^[1]
18	76	Cape Breton Island	10,311	3,981	Nova Scotia	132,010		^[1]^[8]
19	77	Prince Charles Island	9,521	3,676	Nunavut	0		^[1]^[2]
20	89	Anticosti Island	7,941	3,066	Quebec	218		^[1]^[9]
21	97	Cornwallis Island	6,995	2,701	Nunavut	198		^[1]^[2]
22	101	Graham Island	6,361	2,456	British Columbia	4,475		^[1]
23	104	Prince Edward Island	5,620	2,170	Prince Edward Island	142,907		^[1]^[10]
24	107	Coats Island	5,498	2,123	Nunavut	0	The last home of the Sadlermiut people.	^[1]
25	111	Amund Ringnes Island	5,255	2,029	Nunavut	0		^[1]
26	116	Mackenzie King Island	5,048	1,949	Northwest Territories, Nunavut	0		^[1]
27	128	Stefansson Island	4,463	1,723	Nunavut	0		^[1]
28	159	Mansel Island	3,180	1,230	Nunavut	0		^[1]
29	162	Akimiski Island	3,001	1,159	Nunavut	0	Part of the Attawapiskat First Nation's traditional territory	^[1]
30	171	Borden Island	2,794	1,079	Northwest Territories, Nunavut	0		^[1]
31	173	Manitoulin Island	2,766	1,068	Ontario	13,255	World's largest lake island.	^[11]^[12]
32	175	Moresby Island	2,608	1,007	British Columbia	296		^[1]^[13]
33	186	Cornwall Island	2,358	910	Nunavut	0		^[1]
34	191	Princess Royal Island	2,251	869	British Columbia	0		^[1]
35	196	Richards Island	2,165	836	Northwest Territories	0		^[1]
36	206	René-Levasseur Island	2,020	780	Quebec	0	World's second largest lake island.	^[11]
37	227	Air Force Island	1,720	660	Nunavut	0	First written record of the island's existence was in 1948.	^[1]
38	244	Flaherty Island	1,585	612	Nunavut	882	The largest of the Belcher Islands and the site of the southernmost community in Nunavut.	^[1]^[3]
39	248	Eglinton Island	1,541	595	Northwest Territories	0		^[1]
40	266	Graham Island	1,378	532	Nunavut	0		^[1]
41	267	Pitt Island	1,375	531	British Columbia	0		^[1]
42	268	Nottingham Island	1,372	530	Nunavut	0	The island became uninhabited in October 1970	^[1]
43	274	Lougheed Island	1,308	505	Nunavut	0		^[1]
44	296	Byam Martin Island	1,150	440	Nunavut	0		^[1]
45	299	Wales Island	1,137	439	Nunavut	0		^[1]
46	300	Île Vanier	1,126	435	Nunavut	0		^[1]
47	307	Rowley Island	1,090	420	Nunavut	0	Site of an unmanned Distant Early Warning Line base, called FOX-1 at 69°04′01″N 079°03′54″W, and an Automated Surface Observing System.	^[1]
48	312	Cameron Island	1,059	409	Nunavut	0	From 1985 to 1996 the double-hulled tanker M.V.Arctic shipped the light crude from Bent Horn in the south-west of the island to Montreal	^[1]
49	318	Resolution Island	1,015	392	Nunavut	0	Site of CFS Resolution Island.	^[1]
50	320	Banks Island	1,005	388	British Columbia	0		^[1]

List_of_Canadian_islands_by_area

List of Canadian islands by area

Islands over 1,000 km²

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