Amund Ringnes Island is one of the
Sverdrup Islands
The Sverdrup Islands is an archipelago of the northern Queen Elizabeth Islands, in Nunavut, Canada. The islands are situated in the Arctic Ocean, west of Ellesmere Island from 77° to 81° North and 85° to 106° West.
History
The islands are ...
in the
Qikiqtaaluk Region
The Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtani Region (Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ ) or Baffin Region is the easternmost, northernmost, and southernmost administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. Qikiqtaaluk is the traditional Inuktitut name f ...
,
Nunavut
Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' ...
, Canada. It is located in the
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, a ...
, between
78 and
79 degrees of
latitude
In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north– south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body. Latitude is given as an angle that ranges from –90° at the south pole to 90° at the north pol ...
. It lies east of
Ellef Ringnes Island
Ellef Ringnes Island is one of the Sverdrup Islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. A member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and Arctic Archipelago, it is located in the Arctic Ocean, east of Borden Island, and west of Amund Ringne ...
, west of
Axel Heiberg Island.
Hassel Sound
Hassel Sound is an uninhabited natural waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It separates Ellef Ringnes Island
Ellef Ringnes Island is one of the Sverdrup Islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. A member of the ...
separates Amund Ringnes Island from Ellef Ringnes Island.
Hendriksen Strait Hendriksen Strait () is a natural waterway through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. It separates Amund Ringnes Island (to the north) from Cornwall Island (to the south). To the east, the sound opens into Norwegian Bay
...
is to the south, as is
Cornwall Island.
Norwegian Bay
Norwegian Bay (french: Baie Norvégienne) is an Arctic Ocean waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Amund Ringnes Island is to the northwest (separated by the Hendriksen Strait from Cornwall Island), and Axel Heiberg Island is t ...
is to the east, as is
Haig-Thomas Island
Haig-Thomas Island is one of the Sverdrup Islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Massey Sound, between Amund Ringnes Island and Axel Heiberg Island. It is also a member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and the Arctic Archipe ...
. To the north lies
Peary Channel
The Peary Channel is a waterway in the territory of Nunavut. It is an arm of the Arctic Ocean, and it spreads southeast between Meighen Island to the north, Axel Heiberg Island to the east, Amund Ringnes Island to the south, and Ellef Ringnes ...
.
The island has an area of in size, making it the
111th largest island in the world, and
Canada's 25th largest island.
The island was named by
Otto Sverdrup
Otto Neumann Knoph Sverdrup (31 October 1854, in Bindal, Helgeland – 26 November 1930) was a Norwegian sailor and Arctic explorer.
Early and personal life
He was born in Bindal as a son of farmer Ulrik Frederik Suhm Sverdrup (1833–1914) ...
for Oslo brewer
Amund Ringnes Amund Ringnes may refer to:
*Amund Ringnes Island
*Amund Ringnes (brewery owner, 1840)
*Amund Ringnes (brewery owner, 1905)
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, one of the sponsors of his expedition. He first sighted it in 1900. The island was claimed by
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
from 1902 until the claim was relinquished in 1930.
References
External sources
Amund Ringnes Island at The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000.University of Guelph
Further reading
* Atkinson, Nigel. ''Late Wisconsinan Glacial and Relative Sea Level History of Amund and Ellef Ringnes Islands, Nunavut, Canada''. Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 2005.
* Balkwill, H. R. ''Geology of Amund Ringnes, Cornwall, and Haig-Thomas Islands, District of Franklin''. Ottawa, Ont., Canada: Geological Survey of Canada, 1983.
* Hodgson, D. A. ''Surficial Materials and Geomorphological Processes, Western Sverdrup and Adjacent Islands, District of Franklin (Including Amund Ringnes, Southern Ellef Ringnes, Cornwall, Graham and King Christian Islands)''. Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada, 1982.
* Hopkins, W. S. ''Some Spores and Pollen from the Christopher Formation (Albian) of Ellef and Amund Ringnes Island, and Northwestern Melville Island, Arctic Archipelago''.
ttawa Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources, 1974.
External links
Amund Ringnes Islandin the
Atlas of Canada
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- Toporama; Natural Resources Canada
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Islands of the Queen Elizabeth Islands
Sverdrup Islands
Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region