Location Northern Canada Population Uninhabited | Territory Nunavut Area 189 km² | |
Island groups Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Queen Elizabeth Islands | ||
Griffith Island lies within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Canada's territory of Nunavut. It is one of the mid-channel islands in the western sector of Barrow Strait.
Map of Griffith Island, Baffin, Unorganized, NU, Canada
Griffith Island lies directly across from the Inuit hamlet Resolute on Cornwallis Island, separated by the 6.5 mi (10.5 km) wide Resolute Passage.
Capt. Horatio Austin, on board the Resolute and seeking the lost Sir John Franklin expedition, wintered off Griffith Island in 1851. Explorations that winter by second master, George F. McDougall, included McDougall Sound, the waterway to the north of Griffith Island.
Griffith Island is 18 by 11 km (11.2 by 6.8 mi), and 189 km2 (73 sq mi) in area.
Since 1958, the southeast coast of Griffith Island has experienced uncommon change, from discontinuous flying spits to continuous fringing barriers.