Meighen Island

Meighen Iceland is an island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, and one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.

Geography

The island is 955 km ² in size, this 48 km long and 13 to 24 km wide. By Axel Heiberg Iceland in the east it is separated by the 40 km wide Sverdrup Channel and Amund Ringnes of Iceland and Iceland Ellef Ringnes the south by the Peary Channel. In the north, it is preceded by the small crescent shaped island Perley Iceland.

Meighen Iceland has an 80 square kilometer ice cap. In the southern part of the island Meighen Icecap reached its highest point 268 m. On the eastern edge of the ice cap extends from north to south, the hills of Broken Hills. The western part of the island is dominated by the Tiptop Hill.

History

Meighen Iceland was discovered on June 13, 1916 by Vilhjálmur Stefánsson. In 1921 she was named after the Canadian Prime Minister Arthur Meighen. In a Cairn erected by Stefansson was discovered in 1957, the last known message of the German polar explorer Hans Krüger, who, like his two companions disappeared since 1930.