Meighen Island
island, Northwest Territories, Canada
Meighen Island, one of the Sverdrup Islands in Franklin district, Northwest Territories, Canada. It lies in the Arctic Ocean, west of Axel Heiberg Island and north of Ellef Ringnes and Amund Ringnes islands. It is about 30 miles (50 km) long, 8–15 miles (13–25 km) wide, and 293 square miles (759 square km) in area, with a central plateau rising to an altitude of more than 1,000 feet (300 metres). Discovered in 1917 by the explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, it was named for Arthur Meighen, then Canadian minister of the interior.
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