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Melville Island [1] (French: île Melville [citation needed]; Inuktitut: ᐃᓗᓪᓕᖅ, Ilulliq [citation needed]) is an uninhabited member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands of the Arctic Archipelago. With an area of 42,149 km 2 (16,274 sq mi), it is the 33rd largest island in the world and Canada's eighth largest island.
Boothia and Melville Peninsulas, Nunavut, Canada. To the north of Melville Peninsula is Baffin Island. Melville Peninsula is a large peninsula in the Canadian Arctic north of Hudson Bay. To the east is Foxe Basin and to the west the Gulf of Boothia. To the north the Fury and Hecla Strait separates it from Baffin Island.
Boothia Peninsula and Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada. Boothia Peninsula (/ ˈ b uː θ i ə /; formerly Boothia Felix, Inuktitut Kingngailap Nunanga) is a large peninsula in Nunavut's northern Canadian Arctic, south of Somerset Island. The northern part, Murchison Promontory, is the northernmost point of mainland Canada.
Melville Island may refer to: Melville Island (Australia), in the Northern Territory; Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut), in northern Canada; Melville Island (Nova Scotia), a small island in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada; Melville Island, a small island in the Discovery Islands near Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada
The Melville Island oil sands are a large deposit of oil sands (sometimes referred to as tar sands) on Melville Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Exploration for petroleum deposits in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago began, on Melville Island, in 1961. [ 3 ]
Viscount Melville Sound, formerly Melville Sound, [2] is an arm of the Arctic Ocean in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut and the Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories, Canada. Forming part of the Parry Channel , it separates Victoria Island and Prince of Wales Island from the Queen Elizabeth Islands .
Marie Bay is a fjord on the Northwest tip of Melville Island. [2] [3] [4] Marie Bay lies on the part of Melville Island that is in the Northwest Territories while the eastern part of the island is in Nunavut. Oil sands deposits were found in the Marie Bay region [2] and are estimated to hold 100 to 250 million barrels of oil. [5] [6] [7]
The Gulf of Boothia / ˈ b uː θ i ə / is a body of water in Nunavut, Canada. Administratively it is divided between the Kitikmeot Region on the west and the Qikiqtaaluk Region on the east. It merges north into Prince Regent Inlet , the two forming a single bay with different names for its parts.