Mansel Island

{{Short description|Island in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox Islands | name = Mansel Island | image = Mansel Island.jpg | image_size = 200px | image_caption = Aqua MODIS satellite image of Mansel Island, Canada from July 2003. | image_map = Nunavut Mansel Island.png | image_map_caption = Mansel Island, Nunavut | pushpin_map = Canada Nunavut#Canada | native_name = ''Pujjunaq'' | native_name_link = Inuktitut | nickname = | location = [[Hudson Bay]] | coordinates = {{coord|61|59|30|N|79|50|00|W|region:CA-NU_type:isle_scale:1000000|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OAKIN|Mansel Island}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Mansel Island}} | archipelago = [[Arctic Archipelago]] | total_islands = | major_islands = | area_km2 = 3180 | highest_mount = | elevation_m = | 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 = 0 | population_as_of = | density_km2 = | ethnic_groups = | additional_info = }} '''Mansel Island''' ([[Inuktitut]]: '''Pujjunaq'''), a member of the [[Arctic Archipelago]], is an uninhabited island in [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]], [[Nunavut]]. It is located in [[Hudson Bay]] off [[Quebec]]'s [[Ungava Peninsula]].<ref name=LATimes2006-02-05>{{cite news | url=http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-cruisenorth5feb05 | title=Native expedition to the Arctic frontier | work=[[Los Angeles Times]] | author=Mary Lu Abbott | date=2006-02-05 |access-date=2009-02-01 }}</ref> At {{cvt|3,180|km2}} in size, it is the [[List of islands by area|159th largest island in the world]], and [[List of Canadian islands by area|Canada's 28th largest island]]. Its topography features a gently undulating limestone lowland with elevations not exceeding 100 m.

Mansel Island was named in 1613 by Sir [[Thomas Button]]<ref name=ToTheArcticByCanoe-1819-1821> {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hPvCru48DL0C&dq=%22Mansel+Island%22+OR+%22Ile+Mansel%22+OR+%22Isle+Mansel%22&pg=PA16 |title=To the Arctic by Canoe, 1819-1821: The Journal and Paintings of Robert Hood, Midshipman with Franklin |first=Robert |last=Hood |author2=C. Stuart Houston |date=1994 |access-date=2008-09-28 |quote=...named by Button in 1613, after Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Mansel (1573-1653). |page=16 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |isbn=978-0-7735-1222-1 }}</ref> after [[Vice-Admiral]] Sir [[Robert Mansell]].

==References== {{reflist}} * [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mansel-island/ Mansel Island] at [[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130122002132/http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/facts/islands.html Sea islands: Atlas of Canada; Natural Resources Canada]

==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * Aylsworth, J. M., and W. Shilts. ''Surficial Geology of Coats and Mansel Islands, Northwest Territories''. [Ottawa]: Energy, Mines, and Resources Canada, 1991. {{ISBN|0-660-13745-3}} * Comock. ''Comock: the True Story of an Eskimo Hunter as told to Robert Flaherty.'' Photographs by Robert Flaherty. Text by Robert Flaherty and Edmund Carpenter. Jaffrey, N.H.: David R. Godine, 2003. * Furnell, D. J. ''Summer Polar Bear Tagging on Mansel Island, N.W.T''. [Yellowknife]: N.W.T. Wildlife Service, Govt. of the Northwest Territories, 1979. * Polunin, Nicholas. ''Additions to the Floras of Southampton and Mansel Islands, Hudson Bay''. Contributions of The Gray Herbarium, Harvard University, No.165. 1947. {{refend}}

[[Category:Islands of Hudson Bay]] [[Category:Uninhabited islands of the Qikiqtaaluk Region]] [[Category:Hudson's Bay Company trading posts in Nunavut]] [[Category:Former populated places in the Qikiqtaaluk Region]]