Editing Victoria Island (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Victoria topo.png|thumb|Topography of Victoria Island]]
[[File:Arctic CopperNunavut.jpg|thumb|Large native copper specimen from the Saneraum Hills, Victoria Island]]

[[Viscount Melville Sound]]{{ref|map1|map1}} lies to the north, and the [[M'Clintock Channel]]{{ref|map2|map2}} and [[Victoria Strait]]{{ref|map3|map3}} lie eastward. On the west are [[Amundsen Gulf]]{{ref|map4|map4}} and [[Banks Island]],{{ref|map5|map5}} which is separated from Victoria by a long sound called the [[Prince of Wales Strait]].{{ref|map6|map6}} To the south (from west to east) lie the [[Dolphin and Union Strait]],{{ref|map7|map7}} [[Austin Bay (Nunavut)|Austin Bay]],{{ref|map8|map8}} [[Coronation Gulf]]{{ref|map9|map9}} and the [[Dease Strait]].{{ref|map10|map10}}

The southern waterways, and sometimes the Prince of Wales Strait, form part of the disputed [[Northwest Passage]] which the [[Government of Canada]] claims are [[Canadian Internal Waters]], while other nations state they are either [[territorial waters]] or [[international waters]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-09-04/who-controls-northwest-passage-its-debate|title=Who controls the Northwest Passage? It's up for debate.|last=Beeler|first=Carolyn|date=4 September 2017|website=PRI|access-date=1 October 2018}}</ref>

Victoria Island is an island of peninsulas, having a heavily indented coastline with many inlets. In the east, pointing northwards, is the Storkerson Peninsula,{{ref|map11|map11}} which ends with the [[Goldsmith Channel]],{{ref|map12|map12}} the body of water separating Victoria from [[Stefansson Island]].{{ref|map13|map13}} The Storkerson Peninsula is separated from the island's north-central areas by [[Hadley Bay]],{{ref|map14|map14}} a major inlet. Another, broad peninsula is found in the north, [[Prince Albert Peninsula]].{{ref|map15|map15}} This ends at the Prince of Wales Strait. In the south, and pointing westwards, is the [[Wollaston Peninsula]],{{ref|map16|map16}} separated from the island's central areas by Prince Albert Sound.

The highest point of Victoria Island is {{cvt|655|m}} in the [[Shaler Mountains]]{{ref|map17|map17}} in the north-central region. Located in the southeast, just north of Cambridge Bay, is [[Tahiryuaq]] (formerly Ferguson Lake){{ref|map18|map18}}. With an area of {{cvt|562|km2}}, it is the largest lake on the island.<ref>[http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/facts/lakes.html#nunavut Ferguson Lake] at the Atlas of Canada</ref>

It was said by [[Andrew Hund]] in his book, ''Antarctica and the Arctic Circle: A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Earth's Polar Regions'', that the island resembles a stylized maple leaf, the predominant [[National symbols of Canada|symbol of Canada]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Antarctica and the Arctic Circle: A Geographic Encyclopedia of the Earth's Polar Regions|last=Hund|first=Andrew|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2014|isbn=9781610693936|location=Santa Barbara, CA|pages=725}}</ref>

===Climate===
Victoria Island has a [[polar climate]], with no month having an average temperature of {{cvt|10|C}} or higher, and is listed as ''ET'' on the [[Köppen climate classification]]. Summers are typically cool and rainy, with pleasant days and chilly nights. Winters are cold, dark, and long, with October being the snowiest month. Snowfall and frosts are possible all year round. Rainfall is usually limited to the summer months, when the temperature shortly rises above freezing for a few months before dipping back down for another 9 months of winter. Springs are typically sunny but still very chilly. Autumns are short and crisp, with more frequent cloud cover starting to appear during August and with September being almost constantly cloudy.

At Cambridge Bay, the sun is continuously below the horizon, [[polar night]], from approximately 30 November to 11 January and above the horizon, [[midnight sun]], 19 May to 22 July.<ref>[http://www.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/sunrise_adv_e.html Sunrise/Sunset/Sun Angle Calculator] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081106101808/http://www.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/sunrise_adv_e.html|date=6 November 2008}} at the [[National Research Council (Canada)]]</ref>

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