Ward Hunt Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Arctic Ocean, located off the north coast of Ellesmere Island near the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf. The island is located just 750 km (470 mi) from the geographical North Pole. The northern cape of Ward Hunt Island is one of the northernmost elements of land in Canada. Only a 17 km (11 mi) stretch of northern coast of Ellesmere Island around Cape Columbia is more northerly. The island is 5.0 km (3.1 mi) long, east to west, and 3.0 km (1.9 mi) wide. The first known sighting was in 1876 by Pelham Aldrich, a lieutenant with the George Nares expedition, and named for George Ward Hunt, who was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time (1874–1877). Today, the Island is part of the Quttinirpaaq National Park.
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George WardHunt (30 July 1825 – 29 July 1877) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who was Chancellor of the Exchequer and First Lord of...
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The WardHunt Strait is a 30 km wide stretch of water in Milne Bay, separating Papua New Guinea from Goodenough Island in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands. The...
Simonov crossed the Arctic Ocean in 46 days and reached the shores of WardHuntIsland (Canada) Chukotka Sled Dogs. A monument is being erected in Karelia...
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Randalls Island (sometimes called Randall's Island) and WardsIsland are conjoined islands, collectively called Randalls and WardsIsland, in New York...
about 30 (in the winter) to 130 (in the summer) people on the Norwegian island of Svalbard. Just below this settlement at 78.12° N is Svalbard's primary...
March 1968. Starting at Canada's WardHuntIsland just a few miles from Peary's start at Cape Columbia on Ellesmere Island, Plaisted began the 412-mile (663 km)...
main islands of the group are Axel Heiberg Island, Ellef Ringnes Island, Amund Ringnes Island, Cornwall Island,[citation needed] Graham Island,[citation...
celebrations. A geologist left a bottled message in 1959 in a cairn on WardHuntIsland (83°N latitude), allowing its finders in 2013 to determine that a nearby...
2010. Retrieved 2008-04-13. at oceandots.com "The Bachmann Map of WardHuntIsland". Robert Bachmann. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved...
National Park. Ward HuntIsland lies to the northwest. The island group is a part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. The islands are named after...
Beechey Island (Inuktitut: Iluvialuit) is an island located in the Arctic Archipelago of Nunavut, Canada, in Wellington Channel. It is separated from...
Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress and director. Her accolades include an Academy Award, four Primetime Emmy Awards, and...
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Simonov they crossed Arctic Ocean in 46 days and reached the shores of WardHuntIsland (Canada). In 2011 Konyukhov fulfilled an expedition cross Ethiopia...
Brock Island is one of the uninhabited members of the Queen Elizabeth Islands of the Arctic Archipelago located in the Northwest Territories, Canada....
Ellesmere Island. Other major islands include Amund Ringnes Island, Axel Heiberg Island, Bathurst Island, Borden Island, Cornwall Island, Cornwallis Island, Devon...
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