Meighen Island
Meighen Island is an uninhabited member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, part of the Arctic Archipelago, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Located at, it measures 955 square kilometres in size and is topped with an ice cap.Meighen Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Nunavut, Canada
- Category: landform
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
79.91856° or 79° 55′ 7″ north
Longitude
-99.50318° or 99° 30′ 11″ west
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
C6F2WF9W+CP
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Meighen Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة ميغان”
- Asturian: “Isla Meighen”
- Asturian: “Islla Meighen”
- Azerbaijani: “Mien adası”
- Basque: “Meighen uhartea”
- Bulgarian: “Миън”
- Catalan: “Illa de Meighen”
- Cebuano: “Meighen Island”
- Chinese: “米恩島”
- Dutch: “Meigheneiland”
- French: “île Meighen”
- French: “Île Meighen”
- Galician: “Illa Meighen”
- German: “Meighen Island”
- Irish: “Oileán Meighen”
- Italian: “isola Meighen”
- Italian: “Isola Meighen”
- Japanese: “マイエン島”
- Latvian: “Mīena sala”
- Macedonian: “Миен”
- Malayalam: “മെയ്ഘെൻ ദ്വീപ്”
- Polish: “Meighen Island”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Meighen”
- Russian: “Миен”
- Serbian: “Мијен”
- Spanish: “Isla Meighen”
- Swedish: “Meighen Island”
- Turkish: “Meighen Adası”
- Turkish: “Meighen Island”
- Ukrainian: “Мейген”
- Ukrainian: “Мієн”
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