Nimigen Island

{{Short description|Island in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox Islands | name = Nimigen Island | image_name = | image_caption = | image_size = | pushpin_map = Canada Nunavut#Canada | native_name = Kemisuack | native_name_link = Inuktitut | nickname = | location = [[Cumberland Sound]] | coordinates = {{coord|65.12|-66.73|region:CA-NU_type:isle|display=inline,title|name=Nimigen Island}} | archipelago = [[Arctic Archipelago]] | total_islands = | major_islands = | area_km2 = | highest_mount = | elevation_m = | country = Canada | country_admin_divisions_title = [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Nunavut]] | country_admin_divisions = [[Nunavut]] | country_admin_divisions_title_1 = [[Regions of Nunavut|Region]] | country_admin_divisions_1 = [[Qikiqtaaluk Region|Qikiqtaaluk]] | country_admin_divisions_title_2 = | country_admin_divisions_2 = | country_capital_city = | country_largest_city = | country_largest_city_population = | country_leader_title = | country_leader_name = | population = Uninhabited | population_as_of = | density_km2 = | ethnic_groups = }} '''Nimigen Island''' (previously: '''Kemisuack''',<ref name="bray">{{cite book |title=A Frenchman in Search of Franklin: De Bray's Arctic Journal, 1852-54 |last1=de Bray |first1=Émile Frédéric |last2=Barr |first2=William |year=1992 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Toronto, ON |isbn=0-8020-2813-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6N0oYtQDxS0C&q=Nimigen+Island&pg=PA246 |page=246 }}</ref> '''Kemisoke''', '''Kimersok''', '''Kimisoke'''<ref>{{cite book |title=This Distant and Unsurveyed Country: A Woman's Winter at Baffin Island, 1857-1858 |last1=Ross |first1=William Gillies |last2=Penny |first2=Margaret |last3=Penny |first3=William |year=1997 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press |isbn=0-7735-1674-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-dF0xCrjMd4C&q=Nimigen+Island&pg=PA235 |page=235 }}</ref>) is an uninhabited [[Baffin Island]] offshore island located in the [[Arctic Archipelago]] in [[Nunavut]]'s [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]]. It lies in [[Cumberland Sound]], approximately {{convert|10.5|km|abbr=on}} east of [[Robert Peel Inlet]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://travelingluck.com/North%20America/Canada/Nunavut/_6088322_Nimigen+Island.html#local_map |title=Nimigen Island, Nunavut, Canada |access-date=2008-09-18 |publisher=travelingluck.com}}</ref> To its east is [[Utsusivik Island]]; south is [[Chidliak Bay]].

==History== In the mid 19th century, the island supported a [[whaling]] industry.<ref name="bray" /><ref>{{cite book |title=Old Whaling Days |last=Barron |first=William |year=1895 |publisher=W. Andrews |oclc=11477637 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfpIAAAAIAAJ&q=Kemisuack&pg=PA38 |page=28 }}</ref>

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== External links == * [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/toporama?center=1245511.476217,2038937.3991249&zoom=9 Nimigen Island] in the [[Atlas of Canada]] - Toporama; Natural Resources Canada

[[Category:Islands of Baffin Island]] [[Category:Islands of Cumberland Sound]] [[Category:Uninhabited islands of the Qikiqtaaluk Region]]