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	Queen Elizabeth Islands - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ellesmere Island (the largest), the Parry group (Melville, Bathurst, Devon, Prince Patrick, and Cornwallis islands), and the Sverdrup group (Axel Heiberg, Ellef Ringnes, Amund Ringnes, and many smaller islands) are found there.
		The islands are underlain by oil-bearing rock; extensive drilling has been under way since the early 1960s.
		The British explorer Sir William Parry explored (1819—20) many of the islands, and they were known (until 1954) as the Parry Islands.
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	Otto Sverdrup
		A companion of Fridtjof Nansen on the voyage across Greenland in 1888 and on Nansen's later (1893–96) polar expedition, Sverdrup was leader of an arctic expedition (1898–1902) that attempted to reach the North Pole by way of Smith Sound but failed because of ice in Kennedy Channel.
		However, valuable topographical observations were made in N Greenland; the unknown western part of Ellesmere Island was explored and charted, and Axel Heiberg Island and other areas were discovered.
		Axel Heiberg Island - Axel Heiberg Island, 13,583 sq mi (35,180 sq km), in the Arctic Ocean, N Nunavut Territory,...
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	Otto Sverdrup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		affirm Canadian sovereignty over the Sverdrup Islands, which were discovered, namedclaimed by the Norwegian explorer, Otto Sverdrup, in the 1880s.
		Er nahm an der "Fram-Expedition von Fridtjof Nansen in den Jahren 1892 bis 1896 zur Erforschung der zentralen Arktis teil.
		Als Nansen einen Vorstoß per Schlitten zum Nordpol unternahm, übernahm Sverdrup die Schiffsführung der "Fram".
	enzyklopadie.cc /Otto_Sverdrup (403 words)

	Canada
		Canada is a federation of ten provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan) and three territories (Northwest Territories, Yukon, and as of April 1, 1999, Nunavut).
		In 1869, Canada purchased from the Hudson's Bay Company the vast middle west (Rupert's Land) from which the provinces of Manitoba (1870), Alberta (1905), and Saskatchewan (1905) were later formed.
		This new territory includes all of the Arctic north of the mainland, Norway having recognized Canadian sovereignty over the Sverdrup Islands in the Arctic in 1931.
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