Cornwallis Island

Cornwallis Island is one of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Baffin Region, Nunavut Territory of the Canadian Arctic. It lies to the west of Devon Island at 75°05'N 95°00'W and it has an area of about 6,995 kmē and greatest length about 110 km.

The airport at Resolute (Qausuittuq) on the southern coast acts as a communications hub for the central arctic islands of Nunavut. This is Canada's second most northerly community.

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