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Victoria Island c.81,930 sq mi (212,200 sq km), part of the Arctic Archipelago, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, N Canada; third largest island of Canada. On the southeast coast is Cambridge Bay, a U.S.-Canadian weather station and trading post. The island was visited by the British explorers Thomas Simpson and Peter W. Dease in the late 1830s; John Rae explored it in 1851.

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	Norwegian Arctic expansionism, Victoria Island (Russia) and the Bratvaag expedition. Magazine article from: Arctic; 12/1/1998
	Neighbours at odds over Lake Victoria island.(Kenya-Uganda) Magazine article from: African Business; 5/1/2009
	Canabrava Diamond Corporation and Diamonds North Resources Ltd.: Macrodiamonds Recovered, King Eider Kimberlite Pipe, Hadley Bay Project, Victoria Island. Business Wire; 10/22/2002

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	Criminals Move Onto Lake Victoria Islands Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 12/17/1996; 327 words ; ...intruders have entered Kalangala Islands in Lake Victoria, reported the local daily the Monitor today. Kalangala Islands are located neary the northern coast...towns of Entebbe and Kampala to the islands, the paper said. However, there...
	Norwegian Arctic expansionism, Victoria Island (Russia) and the Bratvaag expedition. Magazine article from: Arctic; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...JOSEF LAND AND VICTORIA ISLAND Franz Josef Land...claimed that the islands were first discovered...expeditions to the islands started during...Norwegian interests. Victoria Island (Ostrov Viktoriya...Russian Arctic islands, about 40 km...Josef Land. The island was ...
	Arctic fossils record evolutionary burst.(discovery on Victoria Island)(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Science News; 11/7/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...of land, on Canada's remote Victoria Island, scientists have unearthed a mother...Ontario. Some of the fossils from Victoria Island are bacteria, but many...fossils of early eukaryotes, the Victoria Island forms are so simple that...
	DIAMONDS NORTH Shifts Focus on Victoria Island Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 1/25/2006; 700+ words ; ...agreed to terminate the Blue Ice Agreement on Victoria Island in Nunavut and Northwest Territories. Over...interest in a total of 39 kimberlites on its Victoria Island claims. More than 80% of the Victoria Island kimberlites are diamondiferous and...
	Neighbours at odds over Lake Victoria island.(Kenya-Uganda) Magazine article from: African Business; 5/1/2009; 700+ words ; ...shooting is happening in Lake Victoria - one of the world's biggest...in the lake called Migingo island. Although it is inside Kenya...company of soldiers on the island and raising the national flag...Kenyans is the fact that the island is at least 180km from the...
	If at first you don't succeed: in 2005, an attempt by Australian adventurer Chris Bray and his companion to traverse Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic ended in bitter failure. Here's how they improved their gear for their return three years later, armed with fresh knowledge of the frozen tundra and with revenge in mind.(ESSENTIAL gear) Magazine article from: Geographical; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...face and drip from my nose onto Victoria Island's endless expanse of jagged...and largely unexplored--island on foot? It was a shared dream...punctured easily when we simulated Victoria Island s razor-sharp limestone...
	Canabrava Diamond Corporation and Diamonds North Resources Ltd.: Macrodiamonds Recovered, King Eider Kimberlite Pipe, Hadley Bay Project, Victoria Island. Business Wire; 10/22/2002; 700+ words ; ...kimberlite pipe, Hadley Bay Project, Victoria Island. The King Eider kimberlite is...potential for eclogitic diamonds in the Victoria Island kimberlites the sample sizes...Territories. Six projects are located on Victoria Island; one project is adjacent...
	Nigeria: CIIN, Ganza sign N4b Victoria Island building contract. News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 3/6/2009; 700+ words ; ...Limited for the construction of the Institute's Victoria Island building project. According to the project documentation...which stipulates that all new buildings in the part of Victoria Island where the CIIN property was situated must not be less...
	Canabrava and Diamonds North to Drill Victoria Island Kimberlites. Business Wire; 5/27/2002; 613 words ; ...a four year period. The project area, located on Victoria Island, Nunavut, covers 11,970 square kilometers and...has holdings of approximately 1.3 million acres on Victoria Island and 71,000 acres at Misty Lake, NWT, adjacent...
	Canabrava Diamond Corporation: Victoria Island Drill Camp Established and Geophysical Crew Mobilized. Business Wire; 7/16/2002; 700+ words ; ...drill camp has been moved to the Hadley Bay Project on Victoria Island, Nunavut. The geophysical crew has mobilized to...as the ground geophysical surveys are completed. Victoria Island is currently being explored by a number of companies...