Ward Hunt Island
Ward Hunt Island is a small, uninhabited island in the Arctic Ocean, located off the north coast of Ellesmere Island near the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf. The island is located just 750 km from the geographical North Pole.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.Ward Hunt Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Nunavut, Canada
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
83.09956° or 83° 5′ 58″ north
Longitude
-74.23019° or 74° 13′ 49″ west
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
C7M73QX9+RW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Ward Hunt Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Turkish—“Ward Hunt Island” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Uord-Hant adası”
- Catalan: “Ward Hunt Island”
- Cebuano: “Ward Hunt Island”
- Chinese: “沃德·亨特島”
- Dutch: “Ward Hunt Island”
- French: “île Hunt Island”
- French: “Île Ward Hunt”
- German: “Ward Hunt Island”
- Latvian: “Vorda Hanta sala”
- Persian: “جزیره وارد هانت”
- Russian: “Уорд-Хант”
- Swedish: “Ward Hunt Island”
- Swiss German: “Ward-Hunt-Insle”
- Tosk Albanian: “Ward Hunt Island”
- Turkish: “Ward Hunt Adası”
- Turkish: “Ward Hunt Island”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Walker Hill and Ward Hunt Island Airport.
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