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Brock Island

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Location
  
Northern Canada

Width
  
39 km (24.2 mi)

Population
  
Uninhabited

Length
  
41 km (25.5 mi)

Territory
  
Northwest Territories

Area
  
764 km²

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Island groups
  
Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Queen Elizabeth Islands

Brock Island is one of the uninhabited islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago located in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Located at 77°51'N 114°27'W, it measures 764 km2 (295 sq mi) in size and lies close to Mackenzie King Island. The first known sighting of the island by a European was by Vilhjalmur Stefansson in 1915 and was later named for Reginald W. Brock, Dean of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia.

Map of Brock Island, Inuvik, Unorganized, NT, Canada

References

Brock Island Wikipedia


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