Simialuk ( Inuktitut syllabics: ''ᓯᒥᐊᓗᒃ'') formerly Ormonde IslandSimialuk (Formerly Ormonde Island)
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Fury and Hecla Strait Fury and Hecla Strait is a narrow (from wide) Arctic seawater channel located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Geography Situated between Baffin Island to the north and the Melville Peninsula to the south, it connects Foxe Basin o ...

. Situated in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region within the northern Canadian

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, the island is north of the

Melville Peninsula Melville Peninsula is a large peninsula in the Canadian Arctic north of Hudson Bay. To the east is Foxe Basin and to the west the Gulf of Boothia. To the north the Fury and Hecla Strait separates it from Baffin Island. To the south Repulse B ...

's Northeast Cape (separated by the

Labrador Narrows , nickname = "The Big Land" , etymology = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Canada , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 ...

), south of Baffin Island ( Elder Island lies between them), and west of

Foxe Basin Foxe Basin is a shallow oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula. For most of the year, it is blocked by sea ice (fast ice) and drift ice made up of multiple ice floes. ...

. It is approximately above

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Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region {{QikiqtaalukNU-geo-stub