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Pim Island
2005 photo of Pim Island
Pim Island is located in Nunavut
Pim Island
Pim Island
Pim Island is located in Canada
Pim Island
Pim Island
Geography
LocationNorthern Canada
Coordinates78°44′N 074°25′W / 78.733°N 74.417°W / 78.733; -74.417 (Pim Island)
ArchipelagoQueen Elizabeth Islands
Arctic Archipelago
Administration
Canada
TerritoryNunavut
RegionQikiqtaaluk
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited
Plaque on Pim Island to the memory of dead men from the expedition of Adolphus Greely. Photographed in 2005

Pim Island (previously Bedford Pim Island)[1] is an uninhabited island located off the eastern coast of Ellesmere Island, part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Located within the Arctic Archipelago, it is a part of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.

Pim Island is separated from Ellesmere Island by Rice Strait, the waterway that connects Rosse Bay to the south and Buchanan Bay to the north.[2] Nares Strait is to the east. Pim Island is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from Cocked Hat Island.

  1. ^ Greely, A. W. (2007). Handbook of Polar Discoveries. Read Books. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-4067-6645-5.
  2. ^ Dieck, Herman Dieck (1885). The Marvellous Wonders of the Polar World. Philadelphia: Thompson National Pub. Co. pp. 521. OCLC 6878914. cocked-hat rice's strait.

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