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.
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Queen Elizabeth Islands
- Island with about 150 residents
- …is also known as “Ellesmere Island”
- Description: part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut
- Location
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Latitude of center
79.8353° or 79° 50′ 7″ north
Longitude of center
-77.997° or 77° 59′ 49″ west
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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 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: “Île d’Ellesmere”
- French: “Île Ellesmere”
- French: “Terre d’Ellesmere”
- Galician: “Illa Ellesmere”
- Georgian: “ელსმირი”
- German: “Ellesmere Island”
- German: “Ellesmere-Insel”
- 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 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”
- Swiss German: “Ellesmere Island”
- Tamil: “எல்லெசுமியர் தீவு”
- Tatar: “Элсмир”
- Thai: “เกาะเอลสเมียร์”
- Thai: “เกาะเอสส์เมียร์”
- 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): “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”
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