Richards Island is one of the Canadian arctic islands within the

Northwest Territories The Northwest Territories (abbreviated ''NT'' or ''NWT''; french: Territoires du Nord-Ouest, formerly ''North-Western Territory'' and ''North-West Territories'' and namely shortened as ''Northwest Territory'') is a federal territory of Canada. ...

, Canada. The island has an area of , being long and wide. Its eastern limit is marked by the main channel of the Mackenzie River, while its western limit is defined by the narrower

Reindeer Channel Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subspe ...

. Richards Island was named by John Richardson in 1826 after the Governor of the Bank of England,

John Baker Richards John Baker Richards was Governor of the Bank of England from 1826 to 1828. He had been Deputy Governor from 1824 to 1826. He replaced Cornelius Buller as Governor and was succeeded by Samuel Drewe.Tuktoyaktuk, which lies to the east on the mainland.

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