Victoria Island (Canada)
Native name: Kitlineq | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Northern Canada |
| Coordinates | 70°25′N 107°45′W / 70.417°N 107.750°W |
| Archipelago | Arctic Archipelago |
| Area rank | 8th |
| Length | 700 km (430 mi) |
| Width | 564–623 km (350–387 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 655 m (2149 ft) |
| Highest point | Unnamed |
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Canada | |
| Territories | Northwest Territories Nunavut |
| Largest settlement | Cambridge Bay, Nunavut (pop. 1,760) |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 2,168 (2021) |
| Ethnic groups | Inuit |
Victoria Island [1][2] , Arctic Archipelago ke ek barraa island hae, jon Canada ke Nunavut aur Northwest Territories me hae. Ii dunia ke 8th sab se barraa island hae aur jiske area 217,291 km2 (83,897 sq mi)1 hae, aur ii Canada ke duusra sab se barraa island hae. Iske Newfoundland ke dugnaa size hae jiske area (111,390 km2 [43,010 sq mi]) hae, aur ii Great Britain se thorraa barraa hae(209,331 km2 [80,823 sq mi]) lekin Honshu (225,800 km2 [87,200 sq mi]) se chhotaa hae. Ii island ke western third Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories me hae; aur baaki ke jagha Nunavut's Kitikmeot Region me hae. Iske 2,168 ke abaadi is Cambridge Bay (Nunavut) aur Ulukhaktok (Northwest Territories) me rahe hae.
Ii island ke naam Queen Victoria se aais hae, jon Canadian ke Raani sovereign 1867 se 1901 (though she first became Queen in 1837) rahii. Isme jon jagha ke naam me "Prince Albert" hae ke Victoria ke admii , Albert ke naam se aais hae.
- ↑ "Society – Copper – Eskimo". ukc.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2008-05-14. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
- ↑ Swann, Brian (2005). Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 133. ISBN 0-8032-9340-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=7D2zoR21JHIC&q=Kitlineq+Victoria+Island&pg=PA133.