Cornwall Island (Nunavut)

Cornwall Iceland is an island in the territory of Nunavut in Canada and one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.

Geography

Cornwall Iceland is located in the western part of the Norwegian Bay. Northwest of the island is just across the street Hendriksen, Amund Ringnes Iceland, south, on the other side of the Belcher Channel, Devon Iceland, the Northeast Axel Heiberg Iceland and eastern Iceland and Graham Buckingham Iceland.

Cornwall Iceland is 77 km long and 13-38 km wide. The island is 2358 km ² and reaches Mount Nicolay near the north coast a height of about 360 m. To the east lies the 21 -acre and 31 m deep lake Nicolay Lake.

History

In the history of polar exploration, the island has played no special role. It was discovered on 30 August 1852 by Sir Edward Belcher and named after Edward, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, the future King Edward VII. Belcher landed at Pell Point on the south coast. While Otto Sverdrup's Norwegian Second Fram Expedition Gunnar Isachsen and Sverre Hassel 1901 drove a dog sled on the north coast, without entering the island. The next of Americans Donald MacMillan landed (1874-1970) on the north coast at McLeod Head. In April 1932 a squadron of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police crossed the island on the futile search for the lost German Polar researcher Hans Kruger.