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	Prince Patrick Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Prince Patrick Island is the most westernly of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Northwest Territories, Canada.
		The area of the island is estimated at 15,848 km².
		Prince Patrick Island was first explored in 1853 and (much later) named for Prince Arthur William Patrick, Duke of Connaught, who was Governor General 1911-16.
	www.chulavista.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Prince_Patrick_Island (218 words)

	Prince Patrick Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During the Tertiary, the island was uplifted and faulting occurred.
		A thin strip of sand and gravel deposits of nonglacial origin was laid down along the island's Arctic Ocean coastline during the early Pleistocene.
		The island was named for Prince Arthur William Patrick, duke of Connaught, governor general 1911-16.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006488 (140 words)

	Banks Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Banks Island (75 15 N 121 30 W) is one of the Canadian Arctic Islands.
		It lies in the Inuvik Region in the Northwest Territories to the west of Victoria Island, separated from that island by the Prince of Wales Strait.
		The McClure Strait on the north is between Banks Island and Prince Patrick Island and Melville Island of the Parry Islands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banks_Island (370 words)

	Prince Patrick Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In its northern region, Prince Patrick Island slopes gradually downwards to lowlands at the coast, which are intersected by numerous braided rivers and peppered with small ponds.
		The island is dome-shaped, rising to 150 m at its centre.
		Fitzwilliam Owen and Eight Bears islands lie north of Emerald Island and are covered in gently rolling hills that rise 30-metres from the sea.
	www.arctic.uoguelph.ca /cpe/environments/maps/detailed/islands/prince_patrick.htm (247 words)

	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Parry Islands@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Group of islands shared between the Canadian territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, west of Baffin Bay and north of Lancaster Sound, Viscount Melville Sound, and Barrow Strait.
		The Parry Islands (a subgroup of the Queen Elizabeth Islands) include Bathurst Island, Melville Island, Cornwallis Island, and Prince Patrick Island.
		Prince Patrick Island and Eglinton Islands are in the Northwest Territory as are the western parts...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100165296&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (176 words)

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		Ellesmere Island: Well-known stations on Ellesnere Island are Craig Harbour on the south coast, Alexandra Fjord on the east coast, Alert on the Lincoln Sea coast, and Eureka on Fosheim Peninsula, west Ellesmere Island.
		Prince Patrick Island: A joint weather staion has been maintained by Canada and the United Stated at Mould Bay, on the south coast of Prince Patrick Island, since the speing of 1948.
		Cornwallis Island: At Resolute Bay on the south coast of the island a weather station named Resolute, and an airstrip, were established in 1947.
	www.sfu.ca /geog351fall02/gp2/people/stationtext.html (327 words)

	PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - Online Information article about PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
		The population in 1901 was 103,254, having sunk from 109,078 in 1891.
		tunnel between Cape Traverse in Prince Edward Island and the neighbouring shore of New Brunswick, 9 M. distant.
		The islands are a favourite summer resort; four are inhabited and noted for the mildness and salubrity of their climate.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PRE_PYR/PRINCE_EDWARD_ISLAND.html (2971 words)

	MSN Encarta - Northwest Territories
		Banks and Prince Patrick islands are the largest islands entirely within the boundaries of the Northwest Territories.
		Melville Island and Victoria Island are divided between the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
		Banks, Prince Patrick, and Victoria islands consist of sedimentary rocks that form a series of plains and plateaus.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561711/Northwest_Territories.html (1559 words)

	McClure Strait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The strait connects the Beaufort Sea in the west with Viscount Melville Sound in the east.
		It is bounded by Prince Patrick Island, Eglinton Island and Melville Island on the north and Banks Island on the south.
		As the strait is chronically blocked with thick ice, it is usually impassible to ships; in 1969, the United States-registered tanker SS Manhattan was freed from the ice by a Canadian icebreaker, and forced to travel through Canadian territorial waters to complete its westward passage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/McClure_Strait (179 words)

	MSN Encarta - Northwest Territories
		The coastline of the Northwest Territories can be divided into two parts, the mainland and the islands.
		The coastlines of the Arctic islands (Banks, Melville, Prince Patrick, and Victoria islands) are more than four times as long.
		Prince Patrick Island, for example, has a polar desert.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561711_2/Northwest_Territories.html (1609 words)

	Rare Lake
		On the fifth morning from Melville Island we engaged the east coast of Eglington Island and were fortunate to come close to the shore.
		Marion was fascinated with Prince Patrick ever since her conversation with a Canadian geologist who described the pristine beauty and unusual geological formations found nowhere else in the world.
		By noon the fog dissipated in a flurry providing a teasing glimpse of Somerset Island which was partially masked by the thinning clouds that hung low on the coast and slowly evaporated to reveal the jagged coast and precarious inlets encountered by mariners since the 15th century.
	www.rarelake.com (12069 words)

	Geographic Data Fields - University of Alaska Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		North Pacific Ocean: For purposes of specimens from Alaska, a body of water in the North Pacific Ocean Aggregation to the south and west of the boundaries of the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, and Waters of SE Alaska and BC.
		The Punuk Islands, off the SE cape of Saint Lawrence, are not individually named on any known map.
		For terrestrial mammals from outside of Alaska, this would be a county, parish, island group, etc. For marine mammals, this field used in accordance with the NIRM standards for BAY, i.e.
	www.uaf.edu /museum/mammal/Database_Manual/geog.html (3700 words)

	Canada Provinces
		Newfoundland and Labrador consists of the large island of Newfoundland, a large mainland area on the northeast coast (Labrador), and adjacent islands.
		Nunavut includes all Canadian islands in Hudson Bay, James Bay, the Hudson Strait, Ungava Bay, and the Arctic Ocean between the eastern border of Northwest Territories and the northern tip of Labrador.
		Labrador coast, Anticosti Island, and the Madeleine Islands annexed to Newfoundland.
	www.statoids.com /uca.html (2157 words)

	M'Clure Strait -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It is separated from Melville Island (southeast) by the Kellett and Fitzwilliam straits and from Banks Island (south) by M'Clure Strait.
		Prince Patrick Island is about 150 miles (240 km) long, 20–50 miles (30–80 km) wide, and 6,119 square miles (15,848 square km) in area.
		The end of the Napoleonic Wars had left the British navy relatively unemployed, and the British government, spurred by the enthusiasm of Sir John Barrow, second secretary to the admiralty, was persuaded to equip a whole series of large naval expeditions for the discovery of the Northwest Passage.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049657 (840 words)

	DIAGRAM :: Zachary Schomburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Prince Patrick Island was introduced to Prince of Wales Island and these were not the only islands being introduced to other islands.
		When you asked me to join you in the drawing room, I told you that I could not, that I was in fact an island and that I couldn't join anyone anywhere.
		Saddened and resigned, you revealed to me that you were not the two things that jut outward into the sea as I had assumed, but the little bit of gray sea between them.
	webdelsol.com /DIAGRAM/4_3/schomburg.html (429 words)

	Patrick
		Patrick was the name taken by St. Patrick who converted the island of Ireland to Christianity.
		In Ireland, it was not used until the 15th century in Scotland and the 17th century in Ireland (previously, in Gaelic lands, it was thought to be improper to name children directly after saints).
		Afterwards, Patrick was reimported to England from Ireland and Scotland.
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/p/patrick.html (171 words)

	Prince Edward Island by Patrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Prince Edward Island is a province in eastern Canada.
		The farms have red soil and the Island has warm temperatures.
		Prince Edward Island National Park is 40 km of coastline with red cliffs, sand dunes and beaches.
	www.edu.pe.ca /westroyalty/web2001/3a/Patrick.htm (197 words)

	Biocomplexity Western Canadian Transect Reconnaisance, July 23 to July 29: Report written by Bill Gould (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mould Bay is in the southeast portion of Prince Patrick Island.
		The southeast portion of the island has many bays and has low mountains and relatively lush vegetation compared to the rest of the island.
		We got to the far north end of Prince Patrick to a place called Satellite Bay, which is in Subzone A, the coldest bioclimate subzone.
	www.joss.ucar.edu /atlas/walker_gould_rep2002.htm (2369 words)

	Quaternary Geology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fennoscandia was an island, with water passage between the North Sea and the White Sea across the Baltic Sea and Finland.
		Banks Island, Prince Patrick Island and Melville Island) experienced limited glaciation or were ice free at LGM.
		Baffin Island was heavily glaciated and partly overrun by ice of the Laurentide ice sheet advancing from the Foxe Basin to the west.
	www.hi.is /~oi/quaternary_geology.htm (5409 words)

	northewest
		The NWT is now bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Sea, and polar ice; on the east by Nunavut; on the south by Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia; and on the west by the Yukon Territory.
		From the 60th parallel, the NWT stretches 1,240 miles (2,000 kilometers) to Cape Malloch on Borden Island; the territory is 823 miles (1,325 kilometers) long from east to west.
		Like the Yukon, the NWT can be divided into two broad geographical regions: the taiga (a boreal forest belt that circles the subarctic zone and is typified by stands of pine, aspen, poplar, and birch trees), and the tundra (a rocky arctic region where the cold climate has stunted vegetation).
	cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/canada/northwest.htm (4494 words)

	Vilhjalmur Stefansson's place in history
		The rest reached the island where they endured a winter camping in snow houses and living on pemmican, biscuits, and, occasionally, polar bear meat.
		His unauthorized claiming of Wrangel Island for Canada (it was considered the property of Russia) generated an international incident, while a scheme for the domestication of reindeer ended in chaos.
		Stefansson's memory is kept alive in a few places: Stefansson Island off the northeast corner of Victoria Island, a monument in Manitoba, and a bust in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, created by Canadian sculptor, Emanuel Hahn.
	www.2think.org /karluk.shtml (1607 words)

	Beaufort Sea - Britannica Concise
		Beaufort - city, seat of Beaufort county, southern South Carolina, U.S. It is situated on Port Royal, one of the Sea Islands, and on the Intracoastal Waterway.
		The county comprises lowland plains and some 65 islands (part of the Sea Islands chain) separated from each other and from the mainland by...
		Chukchi Sea - part of the Arctic Ocean, bounded by Wrangel Island (west), northeastern Siberia and northwestern Alaska (south), the Beaufort Sea (east), and the Arctic continental slope (north).
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9356838 (567 words)

	"Genealogy Notes" of Prince Edward Island / St. Patrick's Register
		I baptised Mary Jane born on the 16th --,---- of the lawful marriage of Francis Mc aNally and Marg Green ?.
		I baptised Patrick born on the 11th inst.
		I baptised Bridget born on the 22nd inst of the lawful marriage of Patrick Donoly and Hana Gennings.
	users.adelphia.net /~abeagan/register.htm (1746 words)

	Prudhoe Bay - Britannica Concise
		Small inlet of the Beaufort Sea, northern Alaska, U.S. It has been the centre of oil-drilling activities since the discovery in 1968 of vast petroleum deposits on Alaska's North Slope.
		The Trans-Alaska Pipeline links the area to Valdez on Prince William Sound.
		It extends northeastward from Point Barrow, Alaska, toward Lands End on Prince Patrick Island, and westward from Banks Island to the Chukchi Sea.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9376048 (534 words)

	BirdWeb - Bird Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nesting occurs in loose colonies, on small islands in tundra ponds.
		The breeding range of the Brant is typically within five miles of the coast.
		The West Coast population breeds primarily on Melville Island and Prince Patrick Island in the western high Arctic.
	www.birdweb.org /birdweb/bird_details.aspx?id=52 (628 words)

	Scandinavian Review: He Made the Arctic Friendly
		It is quite understandable that he drove bureaucrats, some of whom were in the Canadian Geological Survey, into fury and that waves of resistance often met his most creative moves.
		Stefansson's achievements were not limited to his work as an anthropologist and to the study of how people survived and evolved in societies.
		His hydrographic soundings outlined for the first time the continental shelf from Alaska to Prince Patrick Island, revealing the mountains and valleys beneath the Beaufort Sea.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3760/is_200404/ai_n9407093 (1417 words)

	Beaufort Sea -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The average depth is 3,239 ft (1,004 m) and the greatest depth 15,360 ft. It is named for the...
		Teams stationed on floes, or ice islands, found that their chief problem was summer thawing.
		Giant cracks appeared in one island, and the campsite broke away from the main part of the floe.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9013986 (954 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		On the Austin expedition he mapped much of the south coast of Melville Island; while on Sir Edward Belcher's expedition (1852–54), he discovered and mapped most of Prince Patrick Island.
		The Fox remained in the Arctic until 1859; McClintock discovered the channel that bears his name, explored Prince of Wales Island and the east coast of King William Island, and sledged to Boothia Peninsula.
		He found records that disclosed that Franklin and his party had left their ships alive and had begun the march toward Hudson Bay.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/McClintoF.html (349 words)

	Banks Island No. 1 Draft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1961 the Banks Island No. 1 Migratory Bird Sanctuary was established specifically to protect the summer grounds of the largest concentration of Lesser Snow Geese in the Western Arctic.
		This island is the fourth largest and can be found East of the Beaufort Sea and North of the Amundsen Gulf.
		Visits to the island's Southwest began in 1890 when whalers came to the island to hunt for food.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /sanctuaries/nwt/ban1.htm (551 words)

	Fourwinds10.com - News - Spiritual > Inspirational -- Help Activate Earth's CRYSTAL ENERGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The north Island of Novaya Zemlya, north of Russia.
		Northern Ellesmere Island, in the northern Canadian archipelago of Islands
		Prince Patrick Island - in the northern Canadian archipelago of islands
	www.fourwinds10.com /news/14-spiritual/D-inspirational/2004/14D-08-03-04-help-activate-earths-crystal-energy.html (1620 words)

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