Hantzsch Island

Hantzsch Island
Geography
Location	Frobisher Bay
Coordinates	61°56′N 65°00′W / 61.93°N 65°W / 61.93; -65 (Hantzsch Island)Coordinates: 61°56′N 65°00′W / 61.93°N 65°W / 61.93; -65 (Hantzsch Island)
Archipelago	Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Area	1 km² (0.39 sq mi)
Highest point	150 m (490 ft)
Administration
Canada
Nunavut	Nunavut
Region	Qikiqtaaluk
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

Hantzsch Island is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Frobisher Bay off the southern tip of Baffin Island's Meta Incognita Peninsula and the northeastern tip of Edgell Island. The closest community is the Inuit hamlet of Sanikiluaq, 800 km (500 mi) to the west on Flaherty Island.

Geography

The island is small and dome-shaped. Its habitat is characterized by coastal cliffs, grassy slopes, and a rugged shoreline.

Fauna

Hantzsch Island is a Canadian Important Bird Area (#NU025), an International Biological Program site, and a Key Migratory Terrestrial Bird Site (NU Site 49). Notable bird species include Black-legged Kittiwake, Thick-billed Murre, and Colonial Waterbirds/Seabirds.^[1]

Beluga whales, Bearded seal, Ringed seal, Harp seal. Polar bears, and Walrus frequent the area.

History

The island is named in honor of Bernhard Hantzsch, a German ornithologist and Arctic researcher.

References

↑ "Hantzsch Island". bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2009-05-08.

Islands of the Qikiqtaaluk Region

	Adams Akpatok Alfred Allen Amherst Arvalik Aulitivik Aulitiving Baffin Barth Beloeil Bergesen Bjarnason Bylot Curry Davids Dexterity Diana Edgeworth Eider Elder Emmerson Fraser Frechette Gyrfalcon Hamilton Imiqqutailaqtuuq Kaigosuiyat Kilian Lady Franklin Landslip Liddon Lock Low Marvin Nakoaiyet Nova Zembla Old Squaw Ormonde Otrick Pandora Payne Peter Richards Pisiktarfik Plover Prescott Prince Leopold Prince of Wales Ragged Round Russell Salikuit Saneruarsuk Scott Sillem Somerset Spicer Stephens Trinity Vesey Hamilton Vivian Ward Hunt Wollaston Yeoman Young

Belcher Islands	Bradbury Broomfield Bun Cake Camsell Dove Fair Flaherty Innetalling Karlay La Duke Loaf Mata Mavor Moore Nero Ney O'Leary Range Renouf Snape Split Tukarak Twin Cairns Walton Wiegand

Islands of Cumberland Sound	Akulagok Anarnittuq Aupaluktok Aupaluktut Beacon Blacklead Clear Passage Drum Ekallulik Iglunga Imigen Ivisa Kaigosuit Kangigutsak Kekertelung Kekerten Kekertukdjuak Kudjak Maktaktujanak Miliakdjuin Moodie Nimigen Nunatak Nuvujen Opingivik Sanigut Saunik Shakshukowshee Shakshukuk Tesseralik Tuapait Ugpitimik Utsusivik Wareham

Islands of Davis Strait	Akuglek Alikdjuak Angijak Durban Idjuniving Kekertaluk Kekertuk Kekerturnak Manitung Monumental Nedlukseak Nudlung Nunatsiaq Nuvuktik Padloping Pilektuak Qaqaluit Rock Satigsun

Islands of Foxe Basin	Air Force Bird Bray Deer Foley Igloolik Jens Munk Koch Neerlonakto North Tweedsmuir Prince Charles Rowley South Tweedsmuir Tern White Winter

Islands of Frobisher Bay	Algerine Alligator Anchorage Aubrey Augustus Bear Beveridge Bishop Brigus Brook Bruce Cairn Camp Carter Chase Coffin Crimmins Crowell Culbertson Daniel Dog Eden Emerick Falk Faris Field Fletcher Frobisher's Farthest Gabriel Gardiner Gay Gross Halford Hantzsch Harper Hill Jenvey Kudlago Kungo Lefferts Leopold Loks Land Long Low Luella Mair Mark Mary McAllister McBride McLaren McLean Metela Mitchell Monument Nest Nouyarn Ogden Pan Peak Pichit Pike Pink Lady Pope Potter Precipice Ptarmigan Pugh Qarsau Quadrifid Redan Resor Sale Scalene Sliver Smith Sybil Thompson Whiskukun

Islands of the Gulf of Boothia	Crown Prince Frederik Glen Honeyman Lavoie Sabine Wales

Islands of Hudson Bay	Awrey Big Booth Bronson Commodore Cox Digges Eddy Elsie Fraley Frazier Gilmour Harrison J. Gordon Johnnys Kugong Long Mansel Marcopeet McCormack Nuvuk Ottawa Pattee Perley Smith

Islands of Hudson Strait	Alareak Aulassivik Avingasittuit Siqinirsipangat Beacon Big Black Bluff Bush Button Charles Clark Dolphin Dorset Edgell Emma Erhardt Forder Glasgow Glencoe Goodwin Gudmusson Hector High Bluff Holdridge Ijjurittiak Ivisaat Juet King Lacy Lavoie Lawson Leading Lee Lower Savage MacColl Mallik Middle Savage Mill Niels Nottingham Nunajuak Nuvursiit Nuvursirpaaraaluk Observation Okolli Point Poodlatee Rabbit Resolution Sakkiak Salisbury Sheer Strathcona Uugalautiit Wishart

Islands of James Bay	Akimiski Bear Big Cape Hope Carey Charlton Grey Goose Gull Jacob North Twin Paint Hills Solomons Temple South Twin Spencer Stag Strutton Sunday Trodely Twin Walter Weston

Islands of the Labrador Sea	Brevoort Cape Chidley Christopher Hall Hozier Hudson Ilikok Jackson Killiniq Knight Leybourne Little Hall Muingmak Rogers

Queen Elizabeth Islands	Alexander Baillie-Hamilton Bathurst Beechey Berkeley Borden Brock Browne Buckingham Byam Martin Cameron Cheyne Coburg Cocked Hat Cornwall Cornwallis Crescent Des Voeux Devon Dundas Edmund Walker Eglinton Ekins Ellesmere Emerald Exmouth Fairholme Findlay Group Garrett Graham Griffith Grosvenor Hans^disputed Helena Houston Stewart Hoved Hyde Parker John Barrow Little Cornwallis Lougheed Lowther Mackenzie King Marc Margaret Massey Melville Nookap Norman Lockyer North Kent Patterson Philpots Pim Pioneer Prince Patrick Princess Royal Seymour Skraeling Spit Stupart Table Thor Truro Vanier

Sverdrup Islands	Amund Ringnes Axel Heiberg Ellef Ringnes Fay Gretha Haig-Thomas Hat King Christian Meighen Stor Ulvingen

See also Islands of the Kitikmeot Region, Islands of the Kivalliq Region.

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