Elder Island is an irregularly shaped island located at the eastern opening of the Fury and Hecla Strait. Situated in

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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 ...

within the northern Canadian

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, the island is north of the Melville Peninsula and

Ormonde Island Simialuk (Inuktitut syllabics: ''ᓯᒥᐊᓗᒃ'') formerly Ormonde Island is an irregularly shaped island located at the eastern opening of the Fury and Hecla Strait. Situated in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region within the northern Canadian Arctic, ...

. It is approximately south of

Baffin Island Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada and the fifth-largest island in the world. Its area is , slightly larger than Spain; its population was 13,039 as of the 2021 Canadia ...

(separated by Adolf Jensen Sound), while the Foxe Basin is to the east.

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Elder Island
in the

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- Toporama; Natural Resources Canada Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region {{QikiqtaalukNU-geo-stub