Umingmalik

{{Short description|Island in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox islands | name = Umingmalik | image_name = | image_caption = | image_size = | locator_map = | pushpin_map = Canada Nunavut#Canada | native_name = | native_name_link = Inuktitut | nickname = | location = [[M'Clintock Channel]] | coordinates = {{coord|70|34|35|N|100|24|46|W|region:CA-NU_type:isle_source:http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/OEBKB|display=inline,title}} | archipelago = [[Arctic Archipelago]] | total_islands = | major_islands = | area_km2 = 220 | highest_mount = | elevation_m= | country = Canada | country_admin_divisions_title = [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Territory]] | country_admin_divisions = [[Nunavut]] | country_largest_city = | country_largest_city_population = | country_leader_title = | country_leader_name = | population = Uninhabited | population_as_of = | density_km2 = | ethnic_groups = | additional_info = }}

'''Umingmalik''' formerly '''Gateshead Island'''<ref>{{Cite web|last=Government of Canada|first=Natural Resources Canada|title=Place names - Umingmalik|url=http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/0c739b8f849c20c361daac4ec8a6b5a2|access-date=2021-07-04|website=www4.rncan.gc.ca|archive-date=2017-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170725010243/http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/0c739b8f849c20c361daac4ec8a6b5a2|url-status=live}}</ref> is an island located in the [[Kitikmeot Region]] of [[Nunavut]], Canada. Located in [[M'Clintock Channel]], the area of Gateshead Island is around {{convert|220|km2|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gateshead Island|url=http://www.oceandots.com/arctic/canada/gateshead.php|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223043232/http://www.oceandots.com/arctic/canada/gateshead.php|archive-date=December 23, 2010|access-date=2009-03-14}}</ref> It is an important [[polar bear]] denning area.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic37-2-169.pdf |title=Polar Bear Denning Area at Gateshead Island, Northwest Territories |access-date=2007-11-28 |archive-date=2011-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524140200/http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic37-2-169.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

This is a different island than the one visited by [[Richard Collinson]], commanding [[HMS Enterprise (1848)|HMS Enterprise]], while searching for [[John Franklin]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Barr|first=William|author-link=William Barr (Arctic historian)|title=Arctic Hell-Ship: The Voyage of HMS Enterprise 1850-1855|url=https://archive.org/details/arctichellshipvo00barr|url-access=registration|quote=gateshead island.|date=2007-06-01|publisher=The University of Alberta Press|isbn=978-0-88864-472-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/arctichellshipvo00barr/page/235 235]|chapter=Chapter 13. Results and Reactions, Then and Later}}</ref>

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[[Category:Uninhabited islands of the Kitikmeot Region]]