Lady Franklin Island

Lady Franklin Island

Native name: Kitigtung
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Geography
Location	Davis Strait
Coordinates	62°56′N 63°44′W
Archipelago	Arctic Archipelago
Administration
Canada
Nunavut	Nunavut
Region	Qikiqtaaluk
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Lady Franklin Island (Inuktitut: Kitigtung),^[1] is an uninhabited Baffin Island offshore island located in the Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. The island lies in Davis Strait, 25 mi (40 km) from Hall Peninsula.^[2] There are at least seven smaller, unnamed islands off its northwest shore.

It was named by Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall as a tribute to Sir John Franklin's wife Lady Franklin.^[2]

The island offers an abundance of bears, caribou (tuktoo), ducks, seals, and walrus.^[2]

References

1. "Lady Franklin Island". mapplanet.com. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
2. Hall, Charles Francis (1865). Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux : being the narrative of an expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862. New York: Harper & Brothers. pp. 308. OCLC 5357849. lady franklin island.

External links

• Photos
• Lady Franklin Island in the Atlas of Canada - Toporama; Natural Resources Canada