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Prince of Wales Island

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Prince of Wales Island, Canada

Prince of Wales Island, c.12,800 sq mi (33,150 sq km), Nunavut Territory, Canada, between Victoria and Somerset islands. The low tundra-covered island has an irregular coastline and is deeply indented by Ommanney Bay and Browne Bay.

Prince of Wales Island, United States

Prince of Wales Island, 2,231 sq mi (5,778 sq km), off SE Alaska; largest island of the Alexander Archipelago. The island is heavily forested, but has little arable land, no source of freshwater, and no available areas for ship docking. Many of the islanders left when the pearl-shell industry, once profitable, declined after the 1950s.
Prince of Wales Island
1. an island in N Canada, in Nunavut. Area: about 36 000 sq. km (14 000 sq. miles)
2. an island in SE Alaska, the largest island in the Alexander Archipelago. Area: about 4000 sq. km (1500 sq. miles)
3. an island in NE Australia, in N Queensland in the Torres Strait
4. the former name (until about 1867) of the island of Penang


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Because these seals now live in areas where the waters are frozen all or part of the year, Heaton says that Prince of Wales Island must have had similar conditions.
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Carl Winsenberg is the general superintendent for Phoenix Logging Company, presently contract logging for Hydacorp, the Haida tribe native corporation, on the west side of Prince of Wales Island (just south of Kupreanof).
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A jawbone, three vertebrae and a pelvic bone, which showed signs of a carnivore's gnawing, were found on Prince of Wales Island, part of the Alexander Archipelago, on July 4.
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