Lougheed Island

Lougheed Iceland is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. It is located in Canada's Nunavut Territory.

Geography

The elongated island is 79 km long, but only up to 26 km wide. Its area is 1308 km ². The island is flat with hills whose height rarely exceeds 100 m. Together with Stupart Iceland, Iceland Edmund Walker, Grosvenor Iceland and Patterson Iceland it is the Findlay - group of the Parry Islands. It lies at the southern end of Prince Gustav Adolf Sea and is separated from Ellef Ringnes and King Christian Iceland Iceland in the north east of Maclean Street. Behind the Desbarats Strait in the south lies Bathurst Iceland. Between Lougheed Iceland and its western neighbor islands in the southeast, Melville Island and the Mackenzie King Island is the Byam Martin Channel. The island can be reached because of the year-round icing of the surrounding waters by sea only by strong icebreakers.

History

Lougheed Iceland is probably identical with " Findlay Iceland " which has been sighted on 27 April 1853 by the expedition Edward Belcher. Vilhjálmur Stefánsson cleared up during the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-1918, that this is several islands, which he mapped precisely. The largest he named after Alexander Lougheed, a conservative politician and at that time Minister without portfolio in the Canadian government. In August 1916 Stefánsson proposed for several weeks on his camp on the Südwestpitze of Lougheed Iceland and explored from here the environment.