Queen Elizabeth Islands
The Queen Elizabeth Islands in Nunavut comprise the northernmost populated region in Canada. They include Ellesmere Island which is the world's tenth largest island.Photo: Ansgar Walk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Grise Fiord and Resolute.
Grise Fiord
Photo: northernpix, CC BY 2.0.
Grise Fiord is a small Inuit village at the southern tip of Ellesmere Island in the Queen Elizabeth Islands of Canada. It is the largest community on the island, and Canada's northernmost public community. There is a school, a church and a store.
Resolute
Photo: Timkal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Resolute is a small town in Nunavut. At almost 75°N, it is well to the north of most inhabited parts of Canada and of any part of Alaska.
Qausuittuq National Park
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Qausuittuq National Park is a national park located on northwest Bathurst Island in Nunavut. It was established on September 1, 2015, becoming Canada's 45th national park.
Queen Elizabeth Islands
- Type: Island with 146 residents
- Description: part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut
- Also known as: “Ellesmere Island”
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Queen Elizabeth Islands” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ellesmere-eiland”
- Arabic: “جزيرة إليسمير”
- Arabic: “جزيرة اليسمر”
- Armenian: “Էլսմիր”
- Asturian: “Islla d’Ellesmere”
- Azerbaijani: “Elsmir adası”
- Azerbaijani: “Elsmir”
- Bashkir: “Элсмир”
- Basque: “Ellesmere uhartea”
- Basque: “Ellesmere”
- Basque: “Umingmak Nuna”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Элсмір”
- Belarusian: “Элсмір”
- Belarusian: “Элсьмір”
- Breton: “Enez Ellesmere”
- Bulgarian: “Елисмиър”
- Bulgarian: “Елсмиър”
- Bulgarian: “Остров Елсмиър”
- Catalan: “Ellesmere Island”
- Catalan: “Ellesmere”
- Catalan: “Illa d’Ellesmere”
- Catalan: “Illa Ellesmere”
- Cebuano: “Ellesmere Island”
- Cebuano: “Île d’Ellesmere”
- Chinese: “埃尔斯米尔岛”
- Chinese: “埃爾斯米爾島”
- Croatian: “Ellesmere”
- Croatian: “Otok Ellesmere”
- Czech: “Ellesmere Island”
- Czech: “Ellesmere”
- Czech: “Ellesmerův ostrov”
- Czech: “Île d’Ellesmere”
- Czech: “Ostrov Ellesmere”
- Danish: “Ellesmere Island”
- Dutch: “Ellesmere Eiland”
- Dutch: “Ellesmere Island”
- Dutch: “Ellesmere-eiland”
- Dutch: “Ellesmere”
- Dutch: “Île d’Ellesmere”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره اليسمير”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Ellesmere”
- Estonian: “Ellesmere’i maa”
- Estonian: “Ellesmere’i saar”
- Estonian: “Ellesmere”
- Fiji Hindi: “Ellesmere Island”
- Finnish: “Ellesmere Island”
- Finnish: “Ellesmerensaari”
- French: “Cap Crozier”
- French: “Ile d’Ellesmere”
- French: “île d’Ellesmere”
- French: “Île d’Ellesmere”
- French: “Île Ellesmere”
- French: “Terre d’Ellesmere”
- Galician: “Illa Ellesmere”
- Georgian: “ელსმირი”
- German: “Ellesmere Island”
- German: “Ellesmere-Insel”
- German: “Ellesmereinsel”
- German: “Ellesmereland”
- Greek: “Έλσμιρ”
- Greek: “Νήσος Έλσμιρ”
- Hebrew: “אלסמיר”
- Hindi: “एल्ज़्मेयर द्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Ellesmere-sziget”
- Icelandic: “Ellesmere-eyja”
- Indonesian: “Ellesmere”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Ellesmere”
- Irish: “Oileán Ellesmere”
- Italian: “Ellesmere Island”
- Italian: “Ellesmere”
- Italian: “isola di Ellesmere”
- Italian: “Isola di Ellesmere”
- Italian: “Isola Ellesmere”
- Italian: “Terra di Ellesmere”
- Japanese: “エルズミーア島”
- Japanese: “エルズミア島”
- Japanese: “エルズメア島”
- Kalaallisut: “Ellesmere Island”
- Kazakh: “Элсмир”
- Korean: “엘즈미어섬”
- Latin: “Insula Ellesmere”
- Latvian: “Elsmīra sala”
- Latvian: “Elsmīra”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Isola Ellesmere”
- Lithuanian: “Elesmero sala”
- Lithuanian: “Elsmyro sala”
- Lithuanian: “Elsmyro Žemė”
- Macedonian: “Елсмир”
- Malay: “Pulau Ellesmere”
- Malayalam: “എല്ലെസ്മിയർ ദ്വീപ്”
- Mingrelian: “ელსმირი”
- Northern Frisian: “Ellesmere Eilun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ellesmere Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ellesmereøya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Île Ellesmere”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ellesmere Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ellesmereøya”
- Norwegian: “Ellesmereøya”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illa d’Ellesmere”
- Persian: “جزیره الزمیر”
- Polish: “Wyspa Ellesmere’a”
- Polish: “Ziemia Ellesmere’a”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Ellesmere”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Ellesmere”
- Romanian: “Insula Ellesmere”
- Russian: “Остров Элсмир”
- Russian: “Эллесмера Земля”
- Russian: “Элсмир”
- Russian: “Элсмира земля”
- Russian: “Эльсмира Земля”
- Samogitian: “Elsmīrs”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Eilean Ellesmere”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ellesmere Island”
- Serbian: “Ellesmere Island”
- Serbian: “Elsmir”
- Serbian: “Елзмир”
- Serbian: “Елсмир”
- Serbian: “Острво Елзмир”
- Serbian: “Острво Елсмир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Elsmir”
- Slovak: “Ellesmerov ostrov”
- Slovenian: “Ellesmere”
- Spanish: “Ellesmere Island”
- Spanish: “Ellesmere”
- Spanish: “Isla de Ellesmere”
- Spanish: “Isla Ellesmere”
- Swahili: “Ellesmere”
- Swedish: “Aussuittuq Qikiqtalua”
- Swedish: “Ellesmere Island”
- Swedish: “Ellesmereön”
- Swedish: “Île d’Ellesmere”
- Swiss German: “Ellesmer Island”
- Swiss German: “Ellesmere Insle”
- Tamil: “எல்லெசுமியர் தீவு”
- Tatar: “Элсмир”
- Thai: “เกาะเอลสเมียร์”
- Thai: “เกาะเอสส์เมียร์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Ellesmere Island”
- Turkish: “Ellesmere Adası”
- Turkish: “Ellesmere Island”
- Turkish: “Ellesmere”
- Ukrainian: “Елсмір”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ellesmerska kupa”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ ایلیسمیرے”
- Uzbek: “Elsmir”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Ellesmere”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ellesmere Island”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ellesmere”
- Waray (Philippines): “Isla han Ellesmere”
- Waray (Philippines): “Puro han Ellesmere”
- Waray (Philippines): “Purô han Ellesmere”
- Welsh: “Ynys Ellesmere”
- Western Frisian: “Ellesmere”
- Western Panjabi: “جزیرا ایلیسمیرے”
- Wu Chinese: “埃尔斯米尔岛”
- Yue Chinese: “埃爾斯米爾島”
- “Elsmīrs”
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