page_title: Brock Island
section_title: References
hierarchical_section_title: Brock Island / References
caption_attribution_description: English: Terra MODIS satellite image of Mackenzie King Island, Canada. Brock Island is on the left.
context_page_description: Brock Island is one of the uninhabited islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago located in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Located at 77°51'N 114°27'W, it measures 764 km² in size and lies close to Mackenzie King Island. The first known sighting of the island by a European was by Vilhjalmur Stefansson in 1915 and it was later named for Reginald W. Brock, Dean of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia.
context_section_description: Stefansson, Vilhjalmur (1922). The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions. New York: Macmillan.
caption: Terra MODIS satellite image of Brock Island (left) and Mackenzie King Island (centre).
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