Canadian Arctic Archipelago

The Canadian Arctic Archipelago, also known as just the Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago north of the Canadian mainland in the Arctic. There are about 36,563 islands which have much of the territory of Northern Canada – most of Nunavut and part of Northwest Territories. The Baffin Island is bigger than the United Kingdom.

The archipelago has 94 major islands (bigger than 130 km²), including three of the world's ten biggest islands, and 36,469 minor islands. The bigger islands of the archipelago (over 10,000 km²) are:

 Name  Location* Area Area rank  Population(2001) World  Canada Baffin Island  20px|Nunavut NU    5  1  9,563 Victoria Island  20px|Northwest Territories NT, 20px|Nunavut NU    9  2  1,707 Ellesmere Island  20px|Nunavut NU    10  3  168 Banks Island  20px|Northwest Territories NT    24  5  114 Devon Island  20px|NU NU    27  6  0 Axel Heiberg Island  20px|Nunavut NU     32  7  0 Melville Island  20px|Northwest Territories NT, 20px|Nunavut NU    33  8  0 Southampton Island  20px|Nunavut NU    34  9  721 Prince of Wales Island  20px|Nunavut NU    40  10  0 Somerset Island  20px|Nunavut NU    46  12  0 Bathurst Island  20px|Nunavut NU    54  13  0 Prince Patrick Island   20px|Northwest Territories NT    55  14  0 King William Island  20px|Nunavut NU    61  15  960 Ellef Ringnes Island  20px|Nunavut NU    69  16  0 Bylot Island  20px|Nunavut NU    72  17  0* NT = Northwest Territories, NU = Nunavut

Category:Islands of Canada
Category:Archipelagos