Cornwallis Island
Cornwallis Island is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, part of the Arctic Archipelago, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic. It lies to the west of Devon Island, the largest uninhabited island in the world, and at its greatest length is about 113 km.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.Cornwallis Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Nunavut, Canada
- Category: landform
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
75.13488° or 75° 8′ 6″ north
Longitude
-95.00138° or 95° 0′ 5″ west
Population
299
Elevation
154 metres (505 feet)
Open location code
C6764XMX+XC
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Cornwallis Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة كورنواليس”
- Armenian: “Քորնուոլիս (կղզի Կանադա)”
- Armenian: “Քորնուոլիս”
- Asturian: “Islla Cornwallis”
- Azerbaijani: “Kornuollis adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Kornuollis”
- Bulgarian: “Корнуолис”
- Catalan: “illa de Cornwallis”
- Catalan: “Illa de Cornwallis”
- Cebuano: “Cornwallis Island”
- Chinese: “康沃利斯岛”
- Dutch: “Cornwallis”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره كورنواليس”
- Estonian: “Cornwallis”
- Finnish: “Cornwallisinsaari”
- French: “île Cornwallis”
- French: “Île Cornwallis”
- Galician: “Illa Cornwallis, Canadá”
- Galician: “Illa Cornwallis, Nunavut”
- Galician: “Illa Cornwallis”
- German: “Cornwallis Island”
- German: “Cornwallis-Insel”
- Irish: “Oileán Cornwallis”
- Italian: “isola Cornwallis”
- Italian: “Isola Cornwallis”
- Japanese: “コーンウォリス島”
- Korean: “콘월리스 섬”
- Korean: “콘월리스섬”
- Latvian: “Kornvolisa”
- Lithuanian: “Kornvaliso sala”
- Macedonian: “Корнволис”
- Malayalam: “കോൺവാലിസ് ദ്വീപ് (നുനാവട്)”
- Malayalam: “കോൺവാലിസ് ദ്വീപ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cornwallisøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cornwallisøya”
- Norwegian: “Cornwallisøya”
- Persian: “جزیره کورنوالیس”
- Polish: “Wyspa Cornwallisa”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Cornwallis”
- Romanian: “Insula Cornwallis, Canada”
- Romanian: “Insula Cornwallis”
- Russian: “Корнуоллис”
- Serbian: “Корнволис”
- Spanish: “Isla Cornwallis”
- Swedish: “Cornwallis Island”
- Swiss German: “Cornwallis Insle”
- Swiss German: “Cornwallis Island”
- Tatar: “Корнволлис”
- Tosk Albanian: “Cornwallis Island”
- Turkish: “Cornwallis Adası”
- Turkish: “Cornwallis Island”
- Ukrainian: “Корнуолліс”
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