28-829: The uninhabited Cheyne Islands are members of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and the Arctic Archipelago in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut , Canada. The group is made up of three islands known as North Island, Middle Island, and South Island. Located approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) off eastern Bathurst Island , they are situated near Reindeer Bay within western Penny Strait . These small alluvial islands, approximately 7 km (4.3 mi) in size, with an elevation up to 3 m (9.8 ft) above sea level , are characterized by barrens and rocky flats. Moss can be found growing on
56-743: A survey vessel on the coast of West Africa until she was sold in 1831. She became a merchantman and in 1834 a Greenland whaler . She was wrecked in 1840. Commander William Popham commissioned Hecla for service in the Mediterranean. Hecla saw wartime service as part of the Anglo-Dutch fleet at the bombardment of Algiers on 27 August 1816. In 1847 the Admiralty authorised the award of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "Algiers" to all surviving claimants from
84-513: A merchantman. The Register of Shipping for 1833 shows her with Allen, master, Banerman, owner, and trade Liverpool– Savannah . Banerman used her for one season in 1834 as a northern seas whaler. Under the command of Captain Reid she caught five whales, yielding 63 tun of whale oil, in the Davis Strait . In 1835 Banerman sold her to Kirkcaldy . Hecla was operating out of Kirkcaldy when she
112-609: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Queen Elizabeth Islands The Queen Elizabeth Islands ( French : Îles de la Reine-Élisabeth ) are the northernmost cluster of islands in Canada's Arctic Archipelago , split between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in Northern Canada . The Queen Elizabeth Islands contain approximately 14% of the global glacier and ice cap area (excluding
140-687: Is disputed by Canada and Denmark, the Cheyne Islands ( 76°18′22″N 097°31′12″W / 76.30611°N 97.52000°W / 76.30611; -97.52000 ( Cheyne Islands ) ), three small (0.73 km (0.28 sq mi) together) islands that are Important Bird Area (#NU049) and a Key Migratory Bird Terrestrial Habitat site (NU site 5) and Skraeling Island ( 78°54′42″N 075°37′58″W / 78.91167°N 75.63278°W / 78.91167; -75.63278 ( Skraeling Island ) ) an important archaeological site where Inuit (along with their ancestors
168-495: The Dorset and Thule ) and Norse artifacts have been found. They consist of Silurian and Carboniferous rocks covered with tundra . With a population of less than 400, the islands are nearly uninhabited. There are only three permanently inhabited places in the islands. The two municipalities are the hamlets of Resolute (population 198 as of the 2016 census ), on Cornwallis Island, and Grise Fiord (population 129 as of
196-798: The Sverdrup Islands and the Parry Islands: In 2000 it was estimated that the Queen Elizabeth Islands were covered by about 104,000 km (40,000 sq mi) glaciers that represent c.14% of all glaciers and ice caps in the world. According to a 2011 report, the surface mass balance of four, the Devon Ice Cap measured 1,699 km (656 sq mi) (northwest sector only); the Meighen Ice Cap measured 75 km (29 sq mi);
224-473: The Sverdrup Islands ). The regional break down of the archipelago is therefore as follows: Ellesmere Island is the northernmost and by far the largest. The Sverdrup Islands are located west of Ellesmere Island and north of Norwegian Bay . The remaining islands further south and west, but north of the Parry Channel ( Lancaster Sound , Viscount Melville Sound and M'Clure Strait ), have been carrying
252-581: The Turnabout Glacier . Download coordinates as: HMS Hecla (1815) HMS Hecla was a Royal Navy Hecla -class bomb vessel launched in 1815. Like many other bomb vessels, she was named for a volcano, in this case Hekla in southern Iceland . She served at the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816. Subsequently, she took part in three expeditions to the Arctic. She then served as
280-694: The 1960s. Later inventories of the World Glacier Monitoring Service under the direction of Fritz Müller , who worked on glacier inventories internationally, included the Axel Heiberg Island glacier. Other glaciers and ice caps in the Queen Elizabeth Islands include the Agassiz Ice Cap , Benedict Glacier , Disraeli Glacier , Eugenie Glacier , Gull Glacier , Parrish Glacier , Sven Hedin Glacier and
308-1966: The 2016 census ), on Ellesmere Island. Alert is a weather station staffed by Environment and Climate Change Canada , a Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) atmosphere monitoring laboratory on Ellesmere Island, and has several temporary inhabitants due to the co-located CFS Alert . Eureka , a small research base on Ellesmere Island, has a population of zero but at least eight staff on a continuous rotational basis. Abandoned Permanent Settlement Seasonally Occupied 82°30′N 62°20′W / 82.500°N 62.333°W / 82.500; -62.333 ( Alert ) 78°54′N 75°59′W / 78.900°N 75.983°W / 78.900; -75.983 ( Alexandra Fiord ) 81°49′N 62°19′W / 81.817°N 62.317°W / 81.817; -62.317 ( Camp Hazen ) 76°12′N 81°01′W / 76.200°N 81.017°W / 76.200; -81.017 ( Craig Harbour ) 74°31′N 82°23′W / 74.517°N 82.383°W / 74.517; -82.383 ( Dundas Harbour ) 79°59′N 82°23′W / 79.983°N 82.383°W / 79.983; -82.383 ( Dundas Harbour ) 75°25′N 89°49′W / 75.417°N 89.817°W / 75.417; -89.817 ( Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station ) 81°43′N 64°43′W / 81.717°N 64.717°W / 81.717; -64.717 ( Fort Conger ) 74°41′N 94°49′W / 74.683°N 94.817°W / 74.683; -94.817 ( Resolute ) Formerly staffed stations were Mould Bay on Prince Patrick Island, Isachsen on Ellef Ringnes Island, and Fort Conger on Ellesmere Island. Abandoned settlements are Dundas Harbour on Devon Island and Craig Harbour on Ellesmere Island. Until 1999,
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#1732765941811336-637: The British Northwest Passage expeditions and later Norwegian exploration of the 19th century. These islands were known as the Parry Archipelago for over 130 years. They were first named after British Arctic explorer Sir William Parry , who sailed there in 1820, aboard the Hecla . Since the renaming of the archipelago in 1953, the term Parry Islands continued to be used for its southwestern part (less Ellesmere Island and
364-566: The Canadian High Arctic, three are in the Queen Elizabeth Islands: Devon, Meighen and Melville. A 2013 Natural Resources Canada memo says that shrinking of the ice caps started in the late 1980s, and has accelerated rapidly since 2005. The increased melt rate was confirmed by University of California, Irvine in 2017. Computer analysis of a glacier inventory of Axel Heiberg Island was undertaken in
392-721: The Melville South Ice Cap measured 52 km (20 sq mi) and the White Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island glacier was 39 km (15 sq mi). The size of these glaciers has been measured since 1961 and their results published in such distinguished journals as the International Glaciological Society 's Annals of Glaciology . Of the four ice caps that the federal government's NRCan's Climate Change Geoscience Program Earth Sciences Sector (ESS), monitors onsite in
420-594: The Middle and South islands. They are a Canadian Important Bird Area (#NU049) and a Key Migratory Bird Terrestrial Habitat site (NU site 5). Notable bird species include Ross's gull and northern common eider . This Qikiqtaaluk Region , Nunavut location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This bird-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to an island or group of islands in Canada
448-604: The Queen Elizabeth Islands were part of the Baffin Region of the Northwest Territories. With the creation of Nunavut in 1999 all islands and fractions of islands of the archipelago east of the 110th meridian west became part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the new territory, which was the major portion of the archipelago. The rest remained with the now-reduced Northwest Territories. Borden Island, Mackenzie King Island and Melville Island were divided between
476-576: The Queen Elizabeth Islands. It ceased production in the 1970s. At the 2013 GeoConvention the Arctic Islands region were called Canada's perpetual "last petroleum exploration frontier". Hogg and Enachescu argued that the development and implementation of advanced marine and land seismic technologies in Alaska, Northern Europe and Siberia could be modified for use in the Queen Elizabeth Islands. Queen Elizabeth Islands had not been fully charted until
504-624: The area of the Queen Elizabeth Islands), but with most of the population of the archipelago (327 in 2021). The remaining 99.89 percent are unincorporated area , with a census 2021 population of zero, albeit a fluctuating population centred in Alert and Eureka, Nunavut. According to the Atlas of Canada there are 34 larger and 2,092 smaller islands in the archipelago. With the exception of Ellesmere Island, they fall into two groups,
532-573: The battle. In early 1819 she was converted to an Arctic exploration ship and made three journeys to the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage , and made one attempt on the North Pole , all under Lieutenant William Edward Parry or Commander George Francis Lyon , and spent many winters iced in without serious damage. On the first journey, from May 1819 until December 1820 Hecla was commanded by Parry. She and her companion ship,
560-567: The company of Fury . Hecla was again under the command of Parry, who now was a captain. Fury was badly damaged at Prince Regent Inlet and had to be abandoned. In 1827, Parry used Hecla for an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole from Spitsbergen by boat, reaching 82°45' N. Following this voyage, Hecla was withdrawn from Arctic service. Commander Thomas Boteler was appointed captain of Hecla in December 1827. She then
588-621: The east, Parry Channel on the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north and west. Most are uninhabited although the Natural Resources Canada 's Climate Change Geoscience Program Earth Sciences Sector (ESS), has monitors on the islands. In 1969 Panarctic Oils , now part of Suncor Energy , began operating exploration oil wells in the Franklinian and Sverdrup basins and planned on establishing its resource base in
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#1732765941811616-463: The graves of Petty Officer John Torrington , Royal Marine Private William Braine , and Able Seaman John Hartnell , three members of Sir John Franklin 's crew who took part in his lost expedition , Hans Island ( 80°49′41″N 066°27′35″W / 80.82806°N 66.45972°W / 80.82806; -66.45972 ( Hans Island ) ), a small, uninhabited barren knoll measuring 1.3 km (0.50 sq mi) whose ownership
644-418: The gun brig Griper , reached a longitude 112°51' W before backtracking to winter off Melville Island . No ship was able to travel so far west again in a single season until 1910, when Joseph-Elzéar Bernier reached Cape Dundas on Melville Island. The second year, the two ships reached longitude 113°46' W before returning to England . On her second expedition, from May 1821 until November 1823, Hecla
672-541: The inland and shelf ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica ). The southern islands are called the Parry Islands or Parry Archipelago . The islands, together 419,061 km (161,800 sq mi) in area, were renamed as a group after Elizabeth II on her coronation as Queen of Canada in 1953. The islands cover an area approximately the shape of a right triangle, bounded by the Nares Strait on
700-1095: The name Parry Islands, which name until 1953 had also included the Sverdrup Islands and Ellesmere Island. South of the Parry Channel are the remaining islands of the Arctic Archipelago . The islands lay on top of and were formed by the movement of the Queen Elizabeth Islands Subplate . Many of the islands are among the largest in the world , the largest being Ellesmere Island . Other major islands include Amund Ringnes Island , Axel Heiberg Island , Bathurst Island , Borden Island , Cornwall Island , Cornwallis Island , Devon Island , Eglinton Island , Ellef Ringnes Island , Mackenzie King Island , Melville Island , and Prince Patrick Island . Other smaller but notable islands include; Beechey Island ( 74°43′N 091°51′W / 74.717°N 91.850°W / 74.717; -91.850 ( Beechey Island ) ), which held
728-410: The two territories. Prince Patrick Island, Eglinton Island and Emerald Island are the only notable islands that are now completely part of the Northwest Territories. Below the level of the territory, there is the municipal level of administration. On that level, there are only two municipalities, Resolute and Grise Fiord , with an aggregate area of 450 km (170 sq mi) (0.11 percent of
756-597: Was engaged in surveying the West African Coast in 1828–31. After Boteler's death in November 1829, Commander F. Harding became her captain. Hecla was put up for sale in 1831 at Woolwich . She was sold in April for £1,990 to Sir E. Banks. Hecla entered Lloyd's Register ( LR ) in 1831 with R. Jumson, master, Banerman, owner, and trade London–St Petersburg. She underwent repairs in 1832 and then became
784-519: Was under Lyon's command while Parry led the overall expedition from her sister ship Fury . The furthest point on this trip, the perpetually frozen strait between Foxe Basin and the Gulf of Boothia , was named after the two ships: Fury and Hecla Strait . Ice conditions frustrated Hecla ' s third expedition to the Canadian Arctic, which took place from May 1824 to October 1825, again in
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