King William , also King William [1] , formerly William King of the Earth [2] ( English King William Island , Eskim. Ик Kikertak ) - the island of the Canadian Arctic archipelago .
| King william | |
|---|---|
| English King William Island , eskim. Kicker attack | |
 King William Island NASA space image. | |
| Characteristics | |
| Area | 13 111 km² |
| Highest point | 137 m |
| Population | 1064 people (2006) |
| Population density | 0.08 people / km² |
| Location | |
| Water area | Arctic Ocean |
| A country |
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| Territory | Nunavut |
Content
- 1 Geography
- 2 History
- 3 Literature
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Geography
Located near the northern coast of mainland Canada (69 ° 10 ′ N). The area of the island is 13 111 km², the coastline is 1289 km [3] . It occupies 61st place in the world and 15th in Canada . The maximum size of the island is 155 per 120 km. It lies north of the Adelaide Peninsula , from which it is separated by the 3.5 km wide Simpson Strait . In the east and northeast it borders on the Butia peninsula, from which it is separated by the Rey and James Ross straits. From the island of Victoria , which lies to the west, it is separated by the strait of the same name 76 km wide. The southwest coast of the island covers the entrance to the Queen Mod Bay .
The island is composed mostly of limestone. The relief is mostly flat. Mount Matheson, 137 meters high, located on the Gibson Peninsula in the southeast of the island, is its highest point [4] . The island is covered with tundra, in the central part there are many lakes.
The main locality is Joa Haven .
History
King William has long been inhabited by the Eskimos . The first European to discover this island in 1830 was James Ross , who named it after the then-reigning British monarch William IV . On this island in 1847 - 1848, the remaining members of the British Arctic expedition John Franklin , including himself [5] , died. Franklin’s grave on the island has not yet been discovered. The Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen hibernated on it in 1903-1905 during his successful expedition on the Joa ship to overcome the Northwest Passage in a westerly direction.
Literature
- Amundsen Royal . Sailing the Northwest Passage on the Joa Ship. - L.: Publishing House of the Glavsevmorputi, 1935 .-- 468 p.: Ill.
- Cooper Paul Fenimore. Island of the Lost.— L .: Gidrometeoizdat, 1970 .-- 167 p.
- Rasmussen Knud . Great sleigh ride. - M .: Geografgiz, 1958.- 184 p. - (Travel. Adventures. Fiction).
Notes
- ↑ Canada // Atlas of the World / comp. and preparation. to the ed. PKO "Cartography" in 2009; ch. ed. G.V. Pozdnyak . - M .: PKO "Cartography": Onyx, 2010. - S. 162-163. - ISBN 978-5-85120-295-7 (Cartography). - ISBN 978-5-488-02609-4 (Onyx).
- ↑ William of the Earth King // Uzi - Fidel. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1956. - P. 53. - ( Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 51 vols.] / Ch. Ed. B. A. Vvedensky ; 1949-1958, vol. 44).
- ↑ Atlas of Canada. List of Islands (link not available) . Archived January 14, 2012.
- ↑ Oceandots.com. The island's encyclopedia
- ↑ John Franklin Biography
Links
- King William - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
- King William at Britannica