| 词条 | Lowther Island |
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| name = Lowther Island | image_name = | image_caption = | image_size = | locator_map = | map_custom = | native_name = | native_name_link = Inuktitut | nickname = | location = Northern Canada | coordinates = {{coord|74|33|N|097|30|W|type:isle_scale:100000_region:CA-NU|name=Lowther Island}} | archipelago = Queen Elizabeth Islands Canadian Arctic Archipelago | total_islands = | major_islands = | area_km2 = 145 | highest_mount = | elevation_m = | country = Canada | country_admin_divisions_title = Territory | country_admin_divisions = Nunavut | country_admin_divisions_title_1 = Qikiqtaaluk Region | country_admin_divisions_1 = | country_admin_divisions_title_2 = | country_admin_divisions_2 = | country_capital_city = | country_largest_city = | country_largest_city_population = | country_leader_title = | country_leader_name = | population = Uninhabited | population_as_of = | density_km2 = | ethnic_groups = | additional_info = }} Lowther Island lies within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Canada's territory of Nunavut. It is one of the mid-channel islands in the western sector of Barrow Strait.[1] Bathurst Island and Cornwallis Island are to the north, while Prince of Wales Island is to the south.[2] The island is clustered within a group of uninhabited islands. It is {{convert|15.5|mi|abbr=on}} northeast of Young Island, separated by the Kettle Passage, a shipping route, and {{Convert|13|mi|abbr=on}} southeast of Garrett Island, separated by Hayes Channel. Lowther Island is {{convert|17|mi|abbr=on}} long, {{convert|2|-|6|mi|abbr=on}} wide,[3] and {{convert|145|km2|abbr=on}}. It is rimmed by raised beaches, the highest being at {{convert|106.5|m|abbr=on}}. above sea level. Gourdeau Point is on the island's south side, and Lowther Shoal is to the south/southeast.[4] HistoryThe first European to sight the island was William Edward Parry in 1819.[5] It is named after a relative of Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (who visited Lowther Island himself), that worked for the Hudson's Bay Company.[6] In August 1852, ÉMile-Frédéric de Bray, searching for Sir John Franklin, spent a week at Lowther Island and close-by Griffith Island.[7] The island was also visited by Francis Leopold McClintock as part of Capt. Henry Kellett's 1852 to 1854 expedition.[8] References1. ^{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J9KK4p5Fb6AC&pg=PA101&lpg=PA101&dq=%22Lowther+Island%22+ |page=101 |title=Canadian Yearbook of International Law |last=Bourne |first=Charles B. |year=1963 |publisher=Publication Centre, University of British Columbia |location=Vancouver |oclc=2442067 |isbn=978-0-7748-0127-0}} 2. ^{{cite book |pages=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bYMpwN0COjAC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=%22barrow+strait%22 |title=The Northwest Passage: Arctic Straits |last=Pharand |first=Donat |authorlink= |author2=Legault, L.H. |year=1984 |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |isbn=90-247-2979-3}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://bartleby.net/69/20/L06820.html |title=Lowther Island |accessdate=2008-04-28 |date=2000 |work= |publisher= The Columbia Gazetteer of North America}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/bitstream/1957/7495/1/DR_no_163.pdf |title=Physical Oceanographic Observations from the Resolute 1995 Ice Camp, Barrow Strait |accessdate=2008-04-28 |last=Crawford |first=G. |last2=Padman |first2=L. |date=February 1997 |format=pdf |pages=39–40 |publisher=Oregon State University}} 5. ^{{cite book | last = Parry | first = William Edward | title = Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: performed in the years 1819-20 | publisher = John Murray | year = 1821 | location = London| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sdM0AAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=William+Edward+Parry+1819#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 6. ^{{cite book |pages=229 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I0cyKlq5cLwC&pg=PA323&lpg=PA323&dq=%22Lowther+Island%22+Lord |title=Contemporary Personalities |last=Birkenhead |first=Frederick E. |year=1977|publisher=Ayer Publishing |location= |isbn=0-8369-0061-8}} 7. ^{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6N0oYtQDxS0C&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=%22Lowther+Island%22 |pages=48–50 |last=Bray |first=E. F. D. |last2=Barr |first2=W. |year=1992 |title=A Frenchman in search of Franklin: de Bray's Arctic journal, 1852-1854 |location=Toronto |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=0-8020-2813-6}} 8. ^{{cite book |title=Ordeal by ice; the search for the Northwest Passage |last=Mowat |first=Farley |year=1973 |publisher=McClelland and Stewart Ltd |location=Toronto |format=The Fate of Franklin |pages=288 |oclc=1391959}} External links
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3 : Islands of the Queen Elizabeth Islands|Islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago|Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region |
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