Arctic Archipelago

A group of more than 36,000 islands of northern Canada in the Arctic Ocean between North America and Greenland. Baffin Island is the largest; Ellesmere Island is the northernmost.

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Arctic Archipelago - all the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic CircleCanada - a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada; "the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world"

Arctic Archipelago

(ärk`tĭk, är`tĭk), group of more than 50 large islands, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, N Canada, in the Arctic Ocean. The southernmost members of the group include Baffin (the archipelago's largest island), Victoria, Banks, Prince of Wales, and Somerset islands; N of Viscount Melville and Lancaster sounds are the Queen Elizabeth Islands, of which Ellesmere is the largest. Tundra and permanent ice cover the islands, on which oil and coal have been discovered. After Greenland, the Archipelago is the world's largest high-arctic land area.

Arctic Archipelago

Related to Arctic Archipelago: Canadian arctic islands

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noun all the islands that lie to the north of mainland Canada and the Arctic Circle

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