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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Aaron Einstein, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Long Island and Apex Hill.
Long Island
Island
Photo: OhanaUnited, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Long 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, approximately 4 km south of the capital city of Iqaluit.
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.
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.
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: Island
- Description: island in Nunavut, Canada
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
63.69932° or 63° 41′ 58″ northLongitude
-68.50304° or 68° 30′ 11″ westOpen location code
97MHMFXW+PQOpenStreetMap ID
way 365208203OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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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”
- Polish: “Monument Island”
- Swedish: “Monument Island”
- Turkish: “Monument Adası”
- Turkish: “Monument Island”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Monument Island”. Photo: Aaron Einstein, Public domain.