The Porden Islands are members of the

Arctic Archipelago The Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding Greenland (an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, which is, by itself, much larger ...

in the territory of

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. They are located in the

Coronation Gulf Coronation Gulf lies between Victoria Island (Canada), Victoria Island and mainland Nunavut in Canada. To the northwest it connects with Dolphin and Union Strait and thence the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean; to the northeast it connects with De ...

, south of the Kent Peninsula. They were discovered in 1822 by Arctic explorer

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and named after William Porden and his daughter Eleanor Anne Porden, whom he later married.

References

Islands of Coronation Gulf Uninhabited islands of Kitikmeot Region {{KitikmeotNU-island-stub