Banks Island, c.26,000 sq mi (67,340 sq km), NW Northwest Territories, Canada, in the Arctic Ocean, in the Arctic Archipelago. It is the westernmost of the group and is separated from the mainland by Amundsen Gulf. Banks Island, which has many lakes, is a hilly plateau rising to c.2,000 ft (610 m) in the south. Once inhabited by Inuit, it is now uninhabited except for occasional trappers. British explorer Sir Robert McClure discovered that it was an island in 1851. Canadian explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson spent much time (1914–17) there and explored the interior.

Banks Island

Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. The westernmost island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, it lies northwest of Victoria Island and is separated from the mainland by Amundsen Gulf. About 250 mi (400 km) long, it has an area of 27,038 sq mi (70,028 sq km). First sighted by Sir William Parry's expedition in 1820, it was named for the naturalist Joseph Banks.

Banks Island

1. an island of N Canada, in the Northwest Territories: the westernmost island of the Arctic Archipelago. Area: about 67 340 sq. km (26 000 sq. miles)

2. an island of W Canada, off British Columbia. Length: about 72 km (45 miles)

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Clockwise, from top: caribou migrate across the tundra in summer, Hudson Bay, Canada; an Atlantic walrus lounges on Svalbard's pack ice; a polar bear distributes his weight so as not to fall through thin ice, Cape Churchill, Canada; a typical Greenland landscape; Musk Ox form a defensive line, Banks Island, Canada.

A Vanishing World by New Internationalist

I arrived yesterday by helicopter from Banks Island, off Canada's Northwestern coast, after an eight-hour flight journey from Lebanon.

Meltdown in the Arctic: Polar icecap shrinking at an alarming rate by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)

I joined the Amundsen on the moonlit evening of November 26, arriving by helicopter from Sachs Harbour, a tiny Inuvialuit community on Banks Island in the Arctic Archipelago--the last hop in a trip that began two days and five plane flights earlier.

The big melt: notes from the front lines of climate change by Grossman, Elizabeth / Earth Island Journal

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