North_Kent_Island

North Kent Island

North Kent Island

Uninhabited island in the Arctic Archipelago

North Kent Island is one of the uninhabited Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Canadian arctic islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the Cardigan Strait between Devon Island's Colin Archer Peninsula and Ellesmere Island's Simmons Peninsula.

Quick Facts Geography, Location ...

Geography

The 590 km2 (230 sq mi) island's terrain is flat-topped and ice-capped, with steep cliffs.

Fauna

North Kent Island is a Canadian Important Bird Area (#NU052), and an International Biological Program site. Notable bird species include black guillemot, common eider, glaucous gull, and Thayer's gull.[1]

Walrus, bearded seal, ringed seal, and narwhal frequent the area.

References

  1. [1]
    "North Kent Island". bsc-eoc.org. Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2009-05-08.


Stub icon

This Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This bird-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article North_Kent_Island, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.