An island of northern Canada, in the Arctic Archipelago east of Banks Island. It was discovered in the late 1830s and explored by John Rae in 1851.
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Victoria Island
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An island of northern Canada, in the Arctic Archipelago east of Banks Island. It was discovered in the late 1830s and explored by John Rae in 1851.
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Victoria Island, c.81,930 sq mi (212,200 sq km), part of the Arctic Archipelago, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, N Canada; third largest island of Canada. On the southeast coast is Cambridge Bay, a U.S.-Canadian weather station and trading post. The island was visited by the British explorers Thomas Simpson and Peter W. Dease in the late 1830s; John Rae explored it in 1851.
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Victoria Island may refer to:
- Victoria Island (California)
- Victoria Island (Canada)
- Victoria Island (Chile)
- Victoria Island (Nigeria)
- Victoria Island (Russian Arctic)
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- Labuan, also known as Victoria Island
- Victoria Island, a fictional island in MMORPG, MapleStory
See also
- Victoria Island structure, impact crater near Stockton, California
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- Cambridge Bay (city, Canada)
- King William Island
- British Columbia (province of western Canada)
- Northwest Territories
- Victoria (capital, Seychelles)
- Seychelles (island country)
- John Rae (Scottish explorer)
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson (Canadian explorer)
- Hannah Maynard (photography)
- Arctic Archipelago (island group, Canada/the Arctic Ocean)
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