Canadian Arctic Archipelago
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The Canadian Arctic Archipelago, also known as just the Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago north of the Canadian mainland in the Arctic. There are about 36,563 islands which have much of the territory of Northern Canada – most of Nunavut and part of Northwest Territories.
The archipelago has 94 major islands (bigger than 130 km²), including three of the world's ten biggest islands, and 36,469 minor islands. The bigger islands of the archipelago (over 10,000 km²) are:
| Name | Location* | Area | Area rank | Population (2001) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World | Canada | ||||
| Baffin Island |  NU |
507,451 km² (195,928 sq mi) | 5 | 1 | 9,563 |
| Victoria Island |  NT, NU |
217,291 km² (83,897 sq mi) | 9 | 2 | 1,707 |
| Ellesmere Island | NU |
196,236 km² (75,767 sq mi) | 10 | 3 | 168 |
| Banks Island | NT |
70,028 km² (27,038 sq mi) | 24 | 5 | 114 |
| Devon Island | NU |
55,247 km² (21,331 sq mi) | 27 | 6 | 0 |
| Axel Heiberg Island | NU |
43,178 km² (16,671 sq mi) | 32 | 7 | 0 |
| Melville Island | NT, NU |
42,149 km² (16,274 sq mi) | 33 | 8 | 0 |
| Southampton Island | NU |
41,214 km² (15,913 sq mi) | 34 | 9 | 721 |
| Prince of Wales Island | NU |
33,339 km² (12,872 sq mi) | 40 | 10 | 0 |
| Somerset Island | NU |
24,786 km² (9,570 sq mi) | 46 | 12 | 0 |
| Bathurst Island | NU |
16,042 km² (6,194 sq mi) | 54 | 13 | 0 |
| Prince Patrick Island | NT |
15,848 km² (6,119 sq mi) | 55 | 14 | 0 |
| King William Island | NU |
13,111 km² (5,062 sq mi) | 61 | 15 | 960 |
| Ellef Ringnes Island | NU |
11,295 km² (4,361 sq mi) | 69 | 16 | 0 |
| Bylot Island | NU |
11,067 km² (4,273 sq mi) | 72 | 17 | 0 |
* NT = Northwest Territories, NU = Nunavut
