# List of Canadian islands by area

This is a list of Canadian islands as ordered by area. It includes all 50 islands with an area greater than 1,000 km$^2$ (390 sq mi). The total area of these islands is 1,545,444 km$^2$.

## Islands over 1,000 km$^2$

| Rank | World rank | Name | Area (km$^2$) | Area (sq mi) | Territory or province | Permanent population (2016) | Notes |
| 1 | 5 | Baffin Island | 507,451 | 195,928 | Nunavut | 13,148 | Population does not include Kinngait and Qikiqtarjuaq. Both lie on small islands just off the coast of Baffin Island. |
| 2 | 8 | Victoria Island | 217,291 | 83,897 | Northwest Territories, Nunavut | 2,162 | Contains the world's largest island within an island within an island. |
| 3 | 10 | Ellesmere Island | 196,236 | 75,767 | Nunavut | 191 | Population includes Grise Fiord, Alert and Eureka. |
| 4 | 16 | Newfoundland | 108,860 | 42,030 | Newfoundland and Labrador | 492,519 | The largest island in Canada outside the Arctic. Population obtained by subtracting the population of Labrador from the total population. |
| 5 | 24 | Banks Island | 70,028 | 27,038 | Northwest Territories | 113 | |
| 6 | 27 | Devon Island | 55,247 | 21,331 | Nunavut | 0 | The largest uninhabited island on Earth. |
| 7 | 32 | Axel Heiberg Island | 43,178 | 16,671 | Nunavut | 0 | |
| 8 | 33 | Melville Island | 42,149 | 16,274 | Northwest Territories, Nunavut | 0 | |
| 9 | 34 | Southampton Island | 41,214 | 15,913 | Nunavut | 891 | |
| 10 | 40 | Prince of Wales Island | 33,339 | 12,872 | Nunavut | 0 | |
| 11 | 43 | Vancouver Island | 31,285 | 12,079 | British Columbia | 813,543 | |
| 12 | 46 | Somerset Island | 24,786 | 9,570 | Nunavut | 0 | Site of Fort Ross, Nunavut, last trading post established by the Hudson's Bay Company. |
| 13 | 54 | Bathurst Island | 16,042 | 6,194 | Nunavut | 0 | Site of Brooman Point Village, a Dorset, Paleo-Eskimo and Thule village. |
| 14 | 55 | Prince Patrick Island | 15,848 | 6,119 | Northwest Territories | 0 | Home of the now abandoned Mould Bay Weather Station. |
| 15 | 61 | King William Island | 13,111 | 5,062 | Nunavut | 1,324 | John Franklin abandoned his ships in the area. |
| 16 | 68 | Ellef Ringnes Island | 11,295 | 4,361 | Nunavut | 0 | Home of Isachsen, a formerly staffed weather station, but now an Automated Surface Observing System |
| 17 | 71 | Bylot Island | 11,067 | 4,273 | Nunavut | 0 | Although uninhabited, Inuit from Pond Inlet travel to the island. |
| 18 | 76 | Cape Breton Island | 10,311 | 3,981 | Nova Scotia | 132,010 | |
| 19 | 77 | Prince Charles Island | 9,521 | 3,676 | Nunavut | 0 | |
| 20 | 89 | Anticosti Island | 7,941 | 3,066 | Quebec | 218 | |
| 21 | 97 | Cornwallis Island | 6,995 | 2,701 | Nunavut | 198 | |
| 22 | 101 | Graham Island | 6,361 | 2,456 | British Columbia | 4,475 | |
| 23 | 104 | Prince Edward Island | 5,620 | 2,170 | Prince Edward Island | 142,907 | |
| 24 | 107 | Coats Island | 5,498 | 2,123 | Nunavut | 0 | The last home of the Sadlermiut people. |
| 25 | 111 | Amund Ringnes Island | 5,255 | 2,029 | Nunavut | 0 | |
| 26 | 116 | Mackenzie King Island | 5,048 | 1,949 | Northwest Territories, Nunavut | 0 | |
| 27 | 128 | Stefansson Island | 4,463 | 1,723 | Nunavut | 0 | |
| 28 | 159 | Mansel Island | 3,180 | 1,230 | Nunavut | 0 | |
| 29 | 162 | Akimiski Island | 3,001 | 1,159 | Nunavut | 0 | Part of the Attawapiskat First Nation's traditional territory |
| 30 | 171 | Borden Island | 2,794 | 1,079 | Northwest Territories, Nunavut | 0 | |
| 31 | 173 | Manitoulin Island | 2,766 | 1,068 | Ontario | 13,255 | World's largest lake island. |
| 32 | 175 | Moresby Island | 2,608 | 1,007 | British Columbia | 296 | |
| 33 | 186 | Cornwall Island | 2,358 | 910 | Nunavut | 0 | |
| 34 | 191 | Princess Royal Island | 2,251 | 869 | British Columbia | 0 | |
| 35 | 196 | Richards Island | 2,165 | 836 | Northwest Territories | 0 | |
| 36 | 206 | René-Levasseur Island | 2,020 | 780 | Quebec | 0 | World's second largest lake island. |
| 37 | 227 | Air Force Island | 1,720 | 660 | Nunavut | 0 | First written record of the island's existence was in 1948. |
| 38 | 244 | Flaherty Island | 1,585 | 612 | Nunavut | 882 | The largest of the Belcher Islands and the site of the southernmost community in Nunavut. |
| 39 | 248 | Eglinton Island | 1,541 | 595 | Northwest Territories | 0 | |
| 40 | 266 | Graham Island | 1,378 | 532 | Nunavut | 0 | |
| 41 | 267 | Pitt Island | 1,375 | 531 | British Columbia | 0 | |
| 42 | 268 | Nottingham Island | 1,372 | 530 | Nunavut | 0 | The island became uninhabited in October 1970 |
| 43 | 274 | Lougheed Island | 1,308 | 505 | Nunavut | 0 | |
| 44 | 296 | Byam Martin Island | 1,150 | 440 | Nunavut | 0 | |
| 45 | 299 | Wales Island | 1,137 | 439 | Nunavut | 0 | |
| 46 | 300 | Île Vanier | 1,126 | 435 | Nunavut | 0 | |
| 47 | 307 | Rowley Island | 1,090 | 420 | Nunavut | 0 | Site of an unmanned Distant Early Warning Line base, called FOX-1 at 69°04′01″N 079°03′54″W﻿ / ﻿69.06694°N 79.06500°W﻿ / 69.06694; -79.06500, and an Automated Surface Observing System. |
| 48 | 312 | Cameron Island | 1,059 | 409 | Nunavut | 0 | From 1985 to 1996 the double-hulled tanker M.V.Arctic shipped the light crude from Bent Horn in the south-west of the island to Montreal |
| 49 | 318 | Resolution Island | 1,015 | 392 | Nunavut | 0 | Site of CFS Resolution Island. |
| 50 | 320 | Banks Island | 1,005 | 388 | British Columbia | 0 | |