{{Short description|Uninhabited island in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox islands | name = Loks Land | image_name = Loksland.png | image_caption = Loks Land, Nunavut (red circle at right edge) | image_size = | pushpin_map = Canada Nunavut#Canada | native_name = | native_name_link = Inuktitut | nickname = | location = [[Frobisher Bay]] | coordinates = {{coord|62|26|N|64|38|W|region:CA-NU_type:isle|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OAJWR|Loks Land}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Loks Land Island}} | archipelago = [[Arctic Archipelago]] | total_islands = | major_islands = | area_km2 = 419 | highest_mount = | elevation_m = | coastline_km = 206 | country = Canada | country_admin_divisions_title = [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Territory]] | country_admin_divisions = [[Nunavut]] | country_admin_divisions_title_1 = [[List of regions of Nunavut|Region]] | country_admin_divisions_1 = [[Qikiqtaaluk Region|Qikiqtaaluk]] | country_admin_divisions_title_2 = | country_admin_divisions_2 = | country_largest_city = | country_largest_city_population = | country_leader_title = | country_leader_name = | population = Uninhabited | population_as_of = | density_km2 = | ethnic_groups = | additional_info = }} [[File:LoksLandCloseup.png|thumb|A closer view of the island]] '''Loks Land''' is an uninhabited island in the [[Arctic Archipelago]] in [[Nunavut]], Canada. It is located off the eastern tip of [[Baffin Island]]'s [[Blunt Peninsula]], close to the mouth of [[Frobisher Bay]]. It has an area of {{cvt|419|km2}} and a coastline of 206&nbsp;km. The local [[Inuktitut]] name for the island is ''Takuligjuaq''.

Loks Land was the site of one of the stations in the [[Distant Early Warning Line]] radar defence network, and had the code number BAF-4A.

The island was visited by [[Martin Frobisher]] and is named for [[Michael Lok]], a London financier who was one of the patrons of Frobisher's Arctic expeditions of the 1570s. Frobisher's first expedition found ore which was purported to contain gold, leading to a second and third expedition which failed to find any of the precious metal. These later speculative ventures almost bankrupted Lok.

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.civilization.ca/hist/frobisher/frsub04e.html Michael Lok] *[http://www.lswilson.ca/dewline.htm#L DEW Line stations]

{{Islands of the Qikiqtaaluk Region}} {{Subdivisions of Nunavut}}

[[Category:Islands of Baffin Island]] [[Category:Uninhabited islands of the Qikiqtaaluk Region]] [[Category:Islands of Frobisher Bay]] [[Category:Former populated places in the Qikiqtaaluk Region]]

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