13-659: Emerald Isle or Emerald Island or variation , may also refer to: Places [ edit ] Emerald Isle (Northwest Territories) , Canada Emerald Isle (Ontario) , Canada; a village in Selwyn township, Peterborough county Emerald Isle, North Carolina , USA Emerald Island (phantom) , a phantom island reported by some early explorers to lie between Australia and Antarctica St. John's Island, Egypt , also known as Zabargad or Emerald Island because of ancient peridot mines Nicknamed [ edit ] Ireland , so referred to in
26-557: A decades-long dispute. The archipelago extends some 2,400 km (1,500 mi) longitudinally and 1,900 km (1,200 mi) from the mainland to Cape Columbia , the northernmost point on Ellesmere Island. It is bounded on the west by the Beaufort Sea ; on the northwest by the Arctic Ocean ; on the east by Greenland, Baffin Bay and Davis Strait ; and on the south by Hudson Bay and
39-428: A total area of 1,400,000 km (540,000 sq mi). The islands of the archipelago over 10,000 km (3,900 sq mi), in order of descending area, are: NT = Northwest Territories , NU = Nunavut After Greenland, the archipelago is the world's largest high-Arctic land area. The climate of the islands is Arctic , and the terrain consists of tundra except in mountainous regions. Most of
52-648: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to an island or group of islands in Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Canadian arctic islands The Arctic Archipelago , also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago , is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark ) and Iceland (an independent country). Situated in
65-744: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Emerald Isle (Northwest Territories) Emerald Isle is one of the uninhabited members of the Canadian arctic islands , specifically of the Parry Islands subgroup of the Queen Elizabeth Islands . It belongs to the Northwest Territories , Canada. It has an area of 549 km (212 sq mi) and measures 36 kilometres (22 mi) long and 22 kilometres (14 mi) wide. This Canadian Northwest Territories location article
78-523: The Northwest Passage as Canadian Internal Waters ; however, most maritime countries view these as international waters . Disagreement over the passages' status has raised Canadian concerns about environmental enforcement, national security, and general sovereignty. East of Ellesmere Island , in the Nares Strait , lies Hans Island , ownership of which is now shared between Canada and Denmark, after
91-685: The rise in sea levels by 2100. Around 2500 BCE, the first humans, the Paleo-Eskimos , arrived in the archipelago from the Canadian mainland. Between 1000 and 1500 CE, they were replaced by the Thule people , who are the ancestors of today's Inuit . British claims on the islands, the British Arctic Territories , were based on the explorations in the 1570s by Martin Frobisher . Canadian sovereignty
104-612: The Canadian mainland. The various islands are separated from each other and the continental mainland by a series of waterways collectively known as the Northwest Passage . Two large peninsulas, Boothia and Melville , extend northward from the mainland. The northernmost cluster of islands, including Ellesmere Island , is known as the Queen Elizabeth Islands and was formerly the Parry Islands. The archipelago consists of 36,563 islands, of which 94 are classified as major islands, being larger than 130 km (50 sq mi), and cover
117-512: The islands are uninhabited; human settlement is extremely thin and scattered, being mainly coastal Inuit settlements on the southern islands. Of the more than 36,000 islands, only 11 are populated. Baffin Island, the largest, also has the largest population of 13,309. The population accounts for 67.37 per cent of the 19,355 people in the Qikiqtaaluk Region , 56.51 per cent of the population of
130-431: The northern extremity of North America and covering about 1,424,500 km (550,000 sq mi), this group of 36,563 islands, surrounded by the Arctic Ocean , comprises much of Northern Canada , predominately Nunavut and the Northwest Territories . The archipelago is showing some effects of climate change , with some computer estimates determining that melting there will contribute 3.5 cm (1.4 in) to
143-1038: The poem When Erin First Rose by William Drennan Kodiak Island , Alaska, USA Lesbos , Greece Montserrat , Caribbean Phú Quốc , Vietnam Other uses [ edit ] Emerald Island (EP) , by Caro Emerald " The Emerald Isle ", comic opera by Sir Arthur Sullivan Emerald Isle (video game) , 1984 computer game by Level 9 Ulmus parvifolia 'Emer I' , the Chinese elm cultivar called Emerald Isle . See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "emerald-isle" or "emerald-island" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles containing emerald island or emerald islands All pages with titles containing Emerald Isle or Emerald Isles All pages with titles beginning with Emerald Island All pages with titles beginning with Emerald Isle Emerald (disambiguation) Isle (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
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169-412: Was originally (1870–80) only over island portions that drained into Foxe Basin , Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait . Canadian sovereignty over the islands was established by 1880 when Britain transferred them to Canada. The District of Franklin – established in 1895 – comprised almost all of the archipelago. The district was dissolved upon the creation of Nunavut in 1999. Canada claims all the waterways of
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