Victoria Island (Canada)

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Satellite image of Victoria Island

Victoria Island is an island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the border between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories runs through the island. It is the 9th biggest island of the world, and at {{Convert}} no longer accepts sqkm as code. Please use km2 instead. Please refer to {{convert}}'s talk page for the reasoning behind this. Sorry for any inconvenience.1 is Canada's second largest island and nearly double the size of Newfoundland (or only slightly bigger than the size of the island of Great Britain). The western third of the island belongs to the Inuvik Region in the Northwest Territories and the rest is part of Nunavut's Kitikmeot Region.

As of 2006, 1,875 live on Victoria Island. Most of the people (1,477) live in it's biggest city, Cambridge Bay.