Des Voeux Island

Des Voeux Island
Geography
Location	Northern Canada
Coordinates	76°10′43″N 096°57′11″W / 76.17861°N 96.95306°W / 76.17861; -96.95306 (Des Voeux Island)Coordinates: 76°10′43″N 096°57′11″W / 76.17861°N 96.95306°W / 76.17861; -96.95306 (Des Voeux Island)
Archipelago	Queen Elizabeth Islands Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Country
Canada
Territory	Nunavut
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Des Voeux Island is a member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the territory of Nunavut. It is an irregularly shaped island located in the Queens Channel, closer to Bathurst Island than to Devon Island.

The island is named in honour of Sir George William Des Vœux, former Governor General of Newfoundland and Labrador and Governor of Hong Kong.

References

External link

Des Voeux Island in the Atlas of Canada - Toporama; Natural Resources Canada

Queen Elizabeth Islands, Nunavut and Northwest Territories, Canada

Ellesmere Island:	Ellesmere

Parry Islands (major):	Devon Melville Bathurst Prince Patrick Cornwallis Mackenzie King Borden Cornwall Eglinton Graham Lougheed Byam Martin Île Vanier Cameron Brock North Kent Emerald Isle Alexander Massey Little Cornwallis Coburg Helena Baillie-Hamilton Griffith Hoved Lowther Buckingham

Parry Islands (minor):	Beechey Berkeley Browne Cheyne Cocked Hat Crescent Des Voeux Dundas Edmund Walker Eight Bears Ekins Fairholme Fitzwilliam Owen Findlay Group Grosvenor Hans (disputed by Denmark) Houston Stewart Hyde Parker Île Marc John Barrow Margaret Nookap Norman Lockyer Patterson Philpots Pim Princess Royal Skraeling Stupart Table Thor Truro

Sverdrup Islands (major):	Axel Heiberg Ellef Ringnes Amund Ringnes King Christian Meighen Stor

Sverdrup Islands (minor):	Fay Gretha Haig-Thomas Hat Ulvingen

Arctic Cordillera of Canada

Ranges	Adam Baffin Blackwelder Blue Boulder British Empire Bruce Byan Martin Challenger Conger Cunningham Douro Everett Garfield Geodetic Grinnell Grogan Morgan Haddington Hartz Inglefield Innuitian Jeffries Joy Krag Krieger Kaumajet Osborn Precipitous Prince of Wales Princess Margaret Sawtooth Selamiut Scoresby Stokes Swiss Thorndike Torngat Treuter United States Victoria and Albert White Triplets

Mountains	Angilaaq Angna Arrowhead Arthur Asgard Ayles Baldr Barbeau Bastille Battle Beaufort Biederbick Bishop's Mitre Brave Breidablik Caubvick Cirque Commonwealth Eugene Highpointer Innuit Kisimngiuqtuq Midnight Sun Nukap Odin Outlook Oxford Qiajivik Stokes Thor Thule Torngarsoak Ukpik Whisler White Crown

Passes	Akshayuk Ayr Bryant Cockscomb Eskimo Eureka Fortress Glacier Kingnait Perfection Pioneer Piper Polar Bear Revoir Singeyer Strand Fiord Sverdrup Van Hauen Yelverton

Glaciers	Agassiz Ice Cap Barnes Ice Cap Benedict Coronation Devon Ice Cap Disraeli Eugenie Gull Jimi Maasi Kaparoqtalik Keyhole Kiitarayuk Macculloch Narsarsuk Nuuksuq Oliver Parrish Penny Ice Cap Sermilik Sven Hedin Turnabout Utinatuk West Pioneer

Regions	Amund Ringnes Axel Heiberg Baffin Bathurst Bylot Coburg Cornwall Devon Ellef Ringnes Ellesmere Helena Île Vanier Labrador Lougheed Quebec

Communities	Alert Clyde River Eureka Grise Fiord Pangnirtung Pond Inlet Iqaluit Qikiqtarjuaq List of communities in Nunavut

Parks	Auyuittuq Quttinirpaaq Sirmilik Torngat Mountains

Islands of the Qikiqtaaluk Region

	Adams Akpatok Alfred Allen Amherst Arvalik Aulitivik Aulitiving Baffin Barth Beloeil Bergesen Bjarnason Bylot Curry Davids Dexterity Diana Edgeworth Eider Elder Emmerson Fraser Frechette Gyrfalcon Hamilton Imiqqutailaqtuuq Kaigosuiyat Kilian Lady Franklin Landslip Liddon Lock Low Marvin Nakoaiyet Nova Zembla Old Squaw Ormonde Otrick Pandora Payne Peter Richards Pisiktarfik Plover Prescott Prince Leopold Prince of Wales Ragged Round Russell Salikuit Saneruarsuk Scott Sillem Somerset Spicer Stephens Trinity Vesey Hamilton Vivian Ward Hunt Wollaston Yeoman Young

Belcher Islands	Bradbury Broomfield Bun Cake Camsell Dove Fair Flaherty Innetalling Karlay La Duke Loaf Mata Mavor Moore Nero Ney O'Leary Range Renouf Snape Split Tukarak Twin Cairns Walton Wiegand

Islands of Cumberland Sound	Akulagok Anarnittuq Aupaluktok Aupaluktut Beacon Blacklead Clear Passage Drum Ekallulik Iglunga Imigen Ivisa Kaigosuit Kangigutsak Kekertelung Kekerten Kekertukdjuak Kudjak Maktaktujanak Miliakdjuin Moodie Nimigen Nunatak Nuvujen Opingivik Sanigut Saunik Shakshukowshee Shakshukuk Tesseralik Tuapait Ugpitimik Utsusivik Wareham

Islands of Davis Strait	Akuglek Alikdjuak Angijak Durban Idjuniving Kekertaluk Kekertuk Kekerturnak Manitung Monumental Nedlukseak Nudlung Nunatsiaq Nuvuktik Padloping Pilektuak Qaqaluit Rock Satigsun

Islands of Foxe Basin	Air Force Bird Bray Deer Foley Igloolik Jens Munk Koch Neerlonakto North Tweedsmuir Prince Charles Rowley South Tweedsmuir Tern White Winter

Islands of Frobisher Bay	Algerine Alligator Anchorage Aubrey Augustus Bear Beveridge Bishop Brigus Brook Bruce Cairn Camp Carter Chase Coffin Crimmins Crowell Culbertson Daniel Dog Eden Emerick Falk Faris Field Fletcher Frobisher's Farthest Gabriel Gardiner Gay Gross Halford Hantzsch Harper Hill Jenvey Kudlago Kungo Lefferts Leopold Loks Land Long Low Luella Mair Mark Mary McAllister McBride McLaren McLean Metela Mitchell Monument Nest Nouyarn Ogden Pan Peak Pichit Pike Pink Lady Pope Potter Precipice Ptarmigan Pugh Qarsau Quadrifid Redan Resor Sale Scalene Sliver Smith Sybil Thompson Whiskukun

Islands of the Gulf of Boothia	Crown Prince Frederik Glen Honeyman Lavoie Sabine Wales

Islands of Hudson Bay	Awrey Big Booth Bronson Commodore Cox Digges Eddy Elsie Fraley Frazier Gilmour Harrison J. Gordon Johnnys Kugong Long Mansel Marcopeet McCormack Nuvuk Ottawa Pattee Perley Smith

Islands of Hudson Strait	Alareak Aulassivik Avingasittuit Siqinirsipangat Beacon Big Black Bluff Bush Button Charles Clark Dolphin Dorset Edgell Emma Erhardt Forder Glasgow Glencoe Goodwin Gudmusson Hector High Bluff Holdridge Ijjurittiak Ivisaat Juet King Lacy Lavoie Lawson Leading Lee Lower Savage MacColl Mallik Middle Savage Mill Niels Nottingham Nunajuak Nuvursiit Nuvursirpaaraaluk Observation Okolli Point Poodlatee Rabbit Resolution Sakkiak Salisbury Sheer Strathcona Uugalautiit Wishart

Islands of James Bay	Akimiski Bear Big Cape Hope Carey Charlton Grey Goose Gull Jacob North Twin Paint Hills Solomons Temple South Twin Spencer Stag Strutton Sunday Trodely Twin Walter Weston

Islands of the Labrador Sea	Brevoort Cape Chidley Christopher Hall Hozier Hudson Ilikok Jackson Killiniq Knight Leybourne Little Hall Muingmak Rogers

Queen Elizabeth Islands	Alexander Baillie-Hamilton Bathurst Beechey Berkeley Borden Brock Browne Buckingham Byam Martin Cameron Cheyne Coburg Cocked Hat Cornwall Cornwallis Crescent Des Voeux Devon Dundas Edmund Walker Eglinton Ekins Ellesmere Emerald Exmouth Fairholme Findlay Group Garrett Graham Griffith Grosvenor Hans^disputed Helena Houston Stewart Hoved Hyde Parker John Barrow Little Cornwallis Lougheed Lowther Mackenzie King Marc Margaret Massey Melville Nookap Norman Lockyer North Kent Patterson Philpots Pim Pioneer Prince Patrick Princess Royal Seymour Skraeling Spit Stupart Table Thor Truro Vanier

Sverdrup Islands	Amund Ringnes Axel Heiberg Ellef Ringnes Fay Gretha Haig-Thomas Hat King Christian Meighen Stor Ulvingen

See also Islands of the Kitikmeot Region, Islands of the Kivalliq Region.

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