King William Island (French: Île du Roi-Guillaume; previously: King William Land; Inuktitut: Qikiqtaq) is an island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut...
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of 129 officers and men, became icebound in Victoria Strait near King William Island in what is today the Canadian territory of Nunavut. After being icebound...
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Arctic Archipelago (redirect from Arctic Island)
(Somerset Island, NU) ^map 22 Victoria, 71°00′N 110°00′W / 71.000°N 110.000°W / 71.000; -110.000 (Victoria Island, NT, NU) ^map 23 King William, 68°58′N...
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HMS Erebus have been trapped in ice, 28 miles north-northwest of King William Island, for more than a year. The weather has been much colder than normal...
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the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702. As King of Scotland, he is known as William II. He ruled Britain...
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May 1859 by William Hobson (Lieutenant on the McClintock Arctic expedition) placed in a cairn on the northwestern coast of King William Island. It contains...
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had been found in Nunavut's Terror Bay, off the southwest coast of King William Island. The wreck was discovered 92 km (57 mi) south of the location where...
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William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June...
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Lost Expedition, having led or participated in nine expeditions to King William Island between 1992 and 2004, searching for relics, records, and the wrecks...
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Island, King William Island, and the northern coast of the Canadian mainland. In 2014, the Victoria Strait Expedition found two items on Hat Island,...
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