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{{Short description|Uninhabited island in the Arctic Archipelago}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox islands
| name = Stefansson Island
| imageimage_name name = StefanssonIslandCloseup.png
| imageimage_caption caption = Stefansson Island and surrounding area
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| map_image =
| locator map = Stefansson Island.svg
| pushpin_map = Canada Nunavut#Canada
| map_custom = no
| nativenative_name name =
| native_name_link =
| native name link =
| nickname =
| location = [[Viscount Melville Sound]]
| coordinates = {{coord|73|3020|N|105|3045|W|region:CA-NU_type:isle_scale:2500000|notes=<ref>{{cite cgndb |id=OAPQG|name=Stefansson Island}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Stefansson Island}}
| archipelago = [[Canadian Arctic Archipelago]]
| total islandstotal_islands =
| major islandsmajor_islands =
| area_km2 = 4463 <!-- | area = {{convert|4463|km2|abbr=on}} -->
| area_footnotes = <ref name="CANE"/>
| highest mount = unnamed
 
| elevation_m = 267 <!-- | elevation = {{convert|267|m|abbr=on}} -->
| country highest_mount = [[Canada]]unnamed
| elevation_m = 256
| country admin divisions title = [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Nunavut]]▼
| elevation_footnotes = <ref name="CANE"/>
| country admin divisions = {{flag|Nunavut}}
 
| country admin divisions title 1 = [[Regions of Nunavut|Region]]▼
| country admin divisions 1 = [[Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut|Kitikmeot]]Canada
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| country_admin_divisions = [[Nunavut]]
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▲| country admin divisions title 1country_admin_divisions_title_1 = [[Regions of Nunavut|Region]]
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| country_admin_divisions_1 = [[Kitikmeot Region|Kitikmeot]]
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| population as of = 0▼
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| population = Uninhabited
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'''Stefansson Island''' is an uninhabited island in the [[Canadian Arctic Archipelago]] in the [[Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut|Kitikmeot Region]] of [[Nunavut]], [[Canada]]. It has ana total area of {{convert|4463|km2|abbr=on}}, making it the [[List of islands by area|128th largest island in the world]], and [[List of Canadian islands by area|Canada's 27th largest island]]. The island is located in [[Viscount Melville Sound]], with [[M'Clintock Channel]] to the east. It lies just off [[Victoria Island (Canada)|Victoria Island]]'s]] Storkerson Peninsula, separated by the [[Goldsmith Channel]]. Stefansson Island's highest mount is {{convert|267256|m|abbr=on}}.<ref name="CANE">[httphttps://atlaswww.nrcan.gcthecanadianencyclopedia.ca/siteen/englisharticle/maps/topo/index.html The Atlas of Canada:stefansson-island Stefansson Island,] Nunavut,at scale[[The 1:100000Canadian or largerEncyclopedia]]</ref>
A weather station, at {{coord|73|45|56|N|105|17|44|W|region:CA-NU_type:landmark_source:https://climate.weather.gc.ca|name=Stefansson Island}}, is located on the northern part of the island as part of an automated weather station array operated by [[Environment and Climate Change Canada]] in the Arctic.<ref>[https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/polar-continental-shelf-program-projects/10009 Polar Continental Shelf Program Projects]</ref>
 
The first European sighting of the island was in 1917 by Storker T. Storkerson who was travelling with Canadian explorer [[Vilhjalmur Stefansson]] (1879-1962), for whom the island was named.<ref name=Mills>{{cite book
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| year = 2003
| location = Santa Barbara
| url = httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=PYdBH4dOOM4C&printsec=frontcover&dqq=Exploring+polar+frontiers&hl=en&ei=I21UTKSmJYWcsQOa2YDbAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false}}</ref>
 
==References==
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==Further reading==
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<div class="references-small">
* Fyles, J. G. ''Surficial Geology of Victoria and Stefansson Islands, District of Franklin''. Ottawa: Roger Duhamel, Queen's Printr, 1963.
{{refend}}
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{{Islands of the Kitikmeot Region}}
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[[Category:Victoria Island (Canada)]]
[[Category:IslandsUninhabited islands of Kitikmeot Region]]
 
 
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