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24-548: It is named after Richard Collinson , officer of the Royal Navy , and Arctic explorer who voyaged through this area in 1853. 70°00′N 101°10′W  /  70.000°N 101.167°W  / 70.000; -101.167  ( Collinson Peninsula ) This Kitikmeot Region , Nunavut location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Richard Collinson Admiral Sir Richard Collinson KCB (7 November 1811 – 13 September 1883)

48-629: A complete blank from these two lands north to "Banks Land" which is the north coast of Banks Island . In 1851 John Rae charted its entire south coast and connected the two "lands". In 1850 and 1851 Robert McClure circumnavigated most of Banks Island, thereby separating it from the rest of Victoria Land. His men also charted the northwest and west coasts of Victoria Island. One of Roald Amundsen 's men, Godfred Hansen, charted its east coast as far as Cape Nansen in 1905, and in 1916 and 1917 Storker T. Storkerson, of Vilhjalmur Stefansson 's Canadian Arctic Expedition , charted its northeast coast, sighting

72-462: A proper interpreter, he might have sent a sledge party east and found some of Franklin's men, if they were still alive. He returned through Bering Strait and around the Cape of Good Hope. At the cape (January 1855) he learned of John Rae 's report that Franklin had been lost just to the east of where he had turned back. Collinson's reputation is lower than it perhaps should be. The problems are that McClure

96-525: Is Canada's second-largest island . It is nearly double the size of Newfoundland (111,390 km  [43,010 sq mi]), and is slightly larger than the island of Great Britain (209,331 km  [80,823 sq mi]) but smaller than Honshu (225,800 km  [87,200 sq mi]). The western third of the island lies in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories;

120-572: Is an island of peninsulas, having a heavily indented coastline with many inlets. In the east, pointing northwards, is the Storkerson Peninsula, which ends with the Goldsmith Channel , the body of water separating Victoria from Stefansson Island . The Storkerson Peninsula is separated from the island's north-central areas by Hadley Bay , a major inlet. Another, broad peninsula is found in the north, Prince Albert Peninsula . This ends at

144-509: Is the largest lake on the island. It was said by Andrew Hund in his book, Antarctica and the Arctic Circle: A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Earth's Polar Regions , that the island resembles a stylized maple leaf, the predominant symbol of Canada . Victoria Island has a polar climate , with no month having an average temperature of 10 °C (50 °F) or higher, and is listed as ET on

168-592: The Dolphin and Union Strait from their summer grazing on Victoria Island to their winter grazing area on the Nunavut-NWT mainland. It is unusual for North American caribou to seasonally cross sea ice and the only other caribou to do so are the Peary caribou , which are smaller in size and population, and also occur on Victoria Island. Victoria Island contains the world's largest island within an island within an island . In

192-671: The Köppen climate classification . Summers are typically cool and rainy, with pleasant days and chilly nights. Winters are cold, dark, and long, with October being the snowiest month. Snowfall and frosts are possible all year round. Rainfall is usually limited to the summer months, when the temperature shortly rises above freezing for a few months before dipping back down for another 9 months of winter. Springs are typically sunny but still very chilly. Autumns are short and crisp, with more frequent cloud cover starting to appear during August and with September being almost constantly cloudy. At Cambridge Bay,

216-771: The Phlegethon off Chapoo in eastern China, causing a "sensation". On 1 April 1842, the British Plenipotentiary of Trade Henry Pottinger reported that Collinson, as commander of the Nemesis based in Chusan , had contributed to a successful skirmish with Chinese troops on the island of Taisam near Ningbo in February of that year. As commander of HMS Plover , and with the aid of Lt Henry Kellett in HMS Starling , he surveyed

240-632: The China coast from 1842 to 1846, producing charts upon which all successors were based. The three expeditions sent in 1848 to locate Sir John Franklin and Franklin's lost expedition in search of the Northwest Passage all failed. In 1850 Collinson was instructed to look for him in the Canadian Arctic by sailing eastward from the Bering Strait and Alaska, while Horatio Austin and others would use

264-607: The Prince of Wales Strait. In the south, and pointing westwards, is the Wollaston Peninsula , separated from the island's central areas by Prince Albert Sound. The highest point of Victoria Island is 655 m (2,149 ft) in the Shaler Mountains in the north-central region. Located in the southeast, just north of Cambridge Bay, is Tahiryuaq (formerly Ferguson Lake) . With an area of 562 km (217 sq mi), it

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288-407: The Storkerson Peninsula. In 2008 Clark Carter and Chris Bray became the first recorded people to walk across Victoria Island. Their first attempt at the 1,000 km (620 mi) trek in 2005 failed, so they returned and completed the remaining 660 km (410 mi) in 2008. Viscount Melville Sound lies to the north, and the M'Clintock Channel and Victoria Strait lie eastward. On

312-511: The first person to traverse the Northwest Passage ). When Collinson reached the Bering Strait and learned that McClure was ahead of him he turned back and spent the winter in Hong Kong. He returned to Bering Strait in mid-July 1851 and sailed east along the coast. On 29 August he was off the coast of Banks Island and saw an open strait tending northeast. This was the Prince of Wales Strait . He entered

336-400: The island. He went a little further southeast and chose winter quarters at Minto Inlet . Here he found another message left by one of McClure's sledging parties. In the spring of 1852 he sent a sledge party north to Melville Island where they found tracks from an unknown traveller (these were McClure's men who were frozen in to the west.) On 5 August he was freed from the ice and went along

360-536: The normal route westward through the Parry Channel . Collinson was given HMS Enterprise and was to be accompanied by Commander Robert McClure commanding HMS Investigator . They left Plymouth in January 1850. After becoming separated off the coast of Chile the two ships became independent. (McClure got to the Bering Strait first and was frozen in on Banks Island . When he was rescued and taken to England he became

384-497: The remainder is part of Nunavut's Kitikmeot Region . The population of 2,168 is divided between two settlements, the larger of which is Cambridge Bay (Nunavut) and the other Ulukhaktok (Northwest Territories). The island is named after Queen Victoria , the Canadian sovereign from 1867 to 1901 (though she first became Queen in 1837). The features bearing the name "Prince Albert" are named after her consort, Albert . Victoria Island

408-586: The retired list in the same year. In 1862, he became an "elder brother" of Trinity House and in 1875 became Deputy Master. Victoria Island (Canada) Victoria Island ( Inuinnaqtun : Kitlineq ) is a large island in the Arctic Archipelago that straddles the boundary between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is the eighth-largest island in the world , and at 217,291 km (83,897 sq mi) in area, it

432-500: The south coast of Victoria Island into the Coronation Gulf , the easternmost point reached by a ship from the Bering Strait. He wintered at Cambridge Bay on the southeast coast of Victoria Island. In the spring of 1853 he led a sledge party to the easternmost point on the island (Point Pelly). A little later some Inuit drew them a map of the area to the east. On the map was a ship. If Collinson had not disregarded this, or had had

456-448: The strait thinking that he might have found the northwest passage, but after a while he saw a flagpole on a hill. Under the flagstaff was a message saying that McClure had wintered here the previous year. Collinson pushed on a little beyond McClure's maximum before he was blocked by ice. Returning south he found another message saying that McClure had passed that point only 18 days before but it did not mention McClure's plan to circumnavigate

480-501: The sun is continuously below the horizon, polar night , from approximately 30 November to 11 January and above the horizon, midnight sun , 19 May to 22 July. The Dolphin-Union caribou herd locally known as Island Caribou are a migratory population of barren-ground caribou , Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus , that occupy Victoria Island in Canada's High Arctic and the nearby mainland. They are endemic to Canada. They migrate across

504-713: The west are Amundsen Gulf and Banks Island , which is separated from Victoria by a long sound called the Prince of Wales Strait . To the south (from west to east) lie the Dolphin and Union Strait , Austin Bay , Coronation Gulf and the Dease Strait . The southern waterways, and sometimes the Prince of Wales Strait, form part of the disputed Northwest Passage which the Government of Canada claims are Canadian Internal Waters , while other nations state they are either territorial waters or international waters . Victoria Island

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528-581: Was always there first, and Collinson's constant quarrels with his officers and bad luck. Roald Amundsen praised him for navigating a large ship through waters that were difficult for Amundsen's small ship, Gjøa . Collinson's account of the voyage was published six years after his death by his brother, Thomas Bernard Collinson . He was awarded the Founder's Medal by the Royal Geographical Society in 1858, knighted in 1875, and made an admiral on

552-525: Was an English naval officer and explorer of the Northwest Passage . He was born in Gateshead , Tyne and Wear, England, then part of County Durham . He joined the Royal Navy in 1823 at age twelve and rose in the ranks, becoming a lieutenant in 1835, commander in 1841, and captain in 1842. Collinson was in command of the Lady Bentinck , a vessel of 1800 tons burden and 520 horsepower, when it appeared with

576-673: Was inhabited by the Thule culture , with five prehistoric qamutiik (sleds) belonging to the Neoeskimo culture being found on the Wollaston Peninsula , dating to 1250–1573 AD. The Inuinnaqtun name for the island is Kitlineq , with the local Inuit people called Kitlinermiut ( Copper Inuit ). In 1826 John Richardson was the first European to see the southwest coast and called it "Wollaston Land". In 1839, Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson followed its southeast coast and called it "Victoria Land". A map published by John Barrow in 1846 shows

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