Prince Charles Island
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Islands Prince Charles Island is a large, low-lying island in Canada. With an area of Template:Convert, it is the world's 77th largest island and the 19th largest island in Canada. It is located in Foxe Basin, off the west coast of Baffin Island, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Though Prince Charles Island has no permanent residents, Inuit visited the island to hunt caribou;<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> the island has no specific name in the Inuktitut language.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Despite the island's size, it was not recorded by Western cartographers until 1932, when the tug captain W. A. Poole first sighted it. His information never made it onto any published map.<ref name=Hayes>Hayes, Derek. 'Newestfoundland' (Canadian Geographic, 123 (5), Sep.-Oct. 2003: 34-35).</ref> It was rediscovered in 1948 by Albert-Ernest Tomkinson navigating an Avro Lancaster for the RCAF 408 (Photo) Squadron.<ref name=Hayes/> The island was named for British Prince Charles (later King Charles III), who was born in November the same year.Template:Citation needed
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Further reading
- Morrison, R. I. G. 1997. "The Use of Remote Sensing to Evaluate Shorebird Habitats and Populations on Prince Charles Island, Foxe Basin, Canada". Arctic. 50, no. 1: 55.
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