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Axel Heiberg Island Axel Heiberg Island
Axel Heiberg Island , 13,583 sq mi (35,180 sq km), in the Arctic Ocean, N Nunavut Territory, Canada, W of Ellesmere Island. It was named by the Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup (who explored it 1898-1902) for one of his patrons. The island's plateau surface (3,000-6,000 ft/915-1,830 m high) is... Read more
Queen Elizabeth Islands Queen Elizabeth Islands
Queen Elizabeth Islands northern part of the Arctic Archipelago, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, N Canada. Ellesmere Island (the largest), the Parry group (Melville, Bathurst, Devon, Prince Patrick, and Cornwallis islands), and the Sverdrup group (Axel Heiberg, Ellef Ringnes, Amund Ringnes, and... Read more
Donald Baxter MacMillan Donald Baxter MacMillan
Donald Baxter MacMillan 1874-1970, American arctic explorer, b. Provincetown, Mass., grad. Bowdoin College, 1898, and studied at Harvard. After a decade of teaching, he went on the expedition (1908-9) of Robert E. Peary to the North Pole. Later (1911, 1912) he made ethnological studies among the... Read more
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Gilbert and Ellice Islands, British western Pacific colony situated south-south-east of the Marshall Islands and north-east of the Solomon Islands. Besides the sixteen atolls of the Gilberts and the nine islands of the Ellice group the colony included Ocean (see Nauru), Fanning, Washington,... Read more
the Hebrides the Hebrides
the Hebrides , Western Isles, or Western Islands, group of more than 50 islands, W and NW Scotland. Less than a fifth of the islands are inhabited. The Outer Hebrides (sometimes also referred to as the Long Island) are separated from the mainland and from the Inner Hebrides by the straits... Read more
Ashmore and Cartier Islands Ashmore and Cartier Islands
Ashmore and Cartier Islands , unhabited tropical islands, 2 sq mi (5 sq km), E Indian Ocean, a dependency of Australia located 190 mi (300 km) NW of N Western Australia. Ashmore Reef is comprised of three coral islets (West, Middle, and East) enclosed by a coral reef. Cartier Island, 33 mi (53 km)... Read more
Ellesmere Island Ellesmere Island
Ellesmere Island 82,119 sq mi (212,688 sq km), c.500 mi (800 km) long, in the Arctic Ocean, N Nunavut Territory, Canada; second largest and northernmost island of the Arctic Archipelago . It is separated from NW Greenland by a narrow passage. The island's coast is indented by deep fjords. The... Read more
Kamehameha Kamehameha
Kamehameha , dynasty of Hawaiian monarchs. Kamehameha I (Kamehameha the Great), c.1738-1819, was king of the island of Hawaii after 1790. Through conquest he became (1810) ruler of all the Hawaiian islands, which were previously governed by warring chiefs. Law and order were established for the... Read more
Svalbard Svalbard
Svalbard , archipelago (23,958 sq mi/62,051 sq km), island group (2005 est. pop. 2,700), possession of Norway, located in the Arctic Ocean, c.400 mi (640 km) N of the Norwegian mainland and between lat. 74°N and 81°N. The main islands of the group are Spitsbergen (formerly... Read more
South Georgia South Georgia
South Georgia island, c.1,450 sq mi (3,760 sq km), S Atlantic Ocean, c.1,200 mi (1,930 km) E of Cape Horn. A dependency of the Falkland Islands from 1908 to 1985 (along with the South Sandwich Islands, a group of nine small, volcanic islets c.450 mi/724 km SE of South Georgia), it and the South... Read more

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