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King William Island

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An island of central Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Archipelago between the Boothia Peninsula and Victoria Island.

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Examples

  • The chances of such an overland expedition finding them twenty-five miles out at sea to the northwest of King William Island are nil.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • He and Silence could now be on the Adelaide Peninsula south across the straits from King William Island, or even on King William Island itself, but somewhere along its uncharted eastern or northeastern coasts where no white man has ever been.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • On moonlit nights, Crozier can see hills inland from their snow-house site — not mountains, but hills larger than any the captain has ever seen on King William Island — and their campsite itself is more sheltered from the wind than any place he or his men ever found, including Terror Camp.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • If this was true, they were very close to the southeast corner of King William Island, their closest possible approach on this landmass to the Back River inlet.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • The ice in this strait south of King William Island was a total jumble of full-sized and shattered icebergs, crisscrossing pressure ridges, the occasional year-round polynya showing black water ten feet below the ice level but leading nowhere, and countless razor-edged seracs and ice boulders.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • If he wanted to return to Terror he would have to travel west across this sea and perhaps across more islands and then across all of the north of King William Island itself and then twenty-five more miles out onto the ice to reach the ship he abandoned more than ten months earlier.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • From Rescue Camp and his crew's other camps along the south coast of King William Island, the frozen straits were always to the south.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Ikpakhuak's Oleekataliks had been vague, even evasive, about where they had found their kabloona treasures — some said they were from a place called Keenuna, which sounded like one of a series of islets in the strait just south of King William Island — but the majority of hunters said they had come across the riches west of Taloyoak at a place called Kugluktuk, which Asiajuk translated as “Place of Falling Waters.”

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Francis Crozier has absolutely no hint as to where the woman is taking him — back to King William Island?

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

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  • An island of central Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Ocean between Boothia Peninsula and Victoria Island. Long an Inuit hunting ground, it was sighted by Sir John Ross in 1831.

    B-A-B-Y glitch definition

    December 4, 2017