Resolution Island (Nunavut)

Resolution Iceland is located southeast Baffin Island an uninhabited island in northern Canada. Administratively it belongs to the region of the territory of Nunavut Qikiqtaaluk.

Geography

Resolution Iceland is located in the eastern area of Hudson Strait about 30 km southeast of the southeastern tip of Baffin Island. The island is 50 km long, up to 32.3 km wide and has an area of 1015 km ², making it the largest island in the Hudson Strait and the fourth largest neighboring island of Baffin Island. North of Iceland resolution is - by 3.8 km wide Strait Graves separately - the 287 km ² large Edgell Iceland. The landscape of the hilly and up to 488 m high island is characterized by interspersed with many small lakes and ponds tundra.

History

The island was for the western world already on July 2, 1576 by ​​Martin Frobisher discovered and entered by him later. Was visited again the island in June 1631 by Thomas James. From 1954 to 1973 operated the United States during the Cold War a Distant Early Warning Line in Iceland resolution. In the late 1980s there were pollution, among other things, polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs), discovered; since 1997, running as part of the resolution Iceland Remediation Projects of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, the decontamination of soils.