Monument Island

Monument Island is one of the many uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. It is a Baffin Island offshore island located in Frobisher Bay, southeast of the capital city of Iqaluit.

Photo: Aaron Einstein, Public domain.

Photo: OhanaUnited, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Apex Hill.

Apex Hill

Peak

Apex Hill is a hill in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on Baffin Island, near the community of Apex, a suburb of Iqaluit. Apex Hill is situated 4 km northeast of Monument Island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Apex and Iqaluit.

Apex

Hamlet

Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Apex is a small community outside Iqaluit located on Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. It is about 5 km southeast of Iqaluit on a small peninsula separating Koojesse Inlet from Tarr Inlet. Apex is situated 4½ km northeast of Monument Island.

Iqaluit

Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Iqaluit is the capital and largest settlement of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is on a southeastern inlet of Baffin Island. As of 2016, the population stood at just over 7,700 people.

Monument Island

Type: Islet
Description: island in Nunavut, Canada
Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude

63.69932° or 63° 41′ 58″ north

Longitude

-68.50304° or 68° 30′ 11″ west

Open location code

97MHMFXW+PQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1562026070

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=coastline

OpenStreetMap feature

place=islet

GeoNames ID

6077507

Wikidata ID

Q16210928

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Monument Island” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Monument Island”
Dutch: “Monument Island”
German: “Monument Island”
Polish: “Monument Island”
Swedish: “Monument Island”
Turkish: “Monument Adası”
Turkish: “Monument Island”

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