Signal verified · updated 2026-09-03
Victoria Island
The world's eighth-largest island, split between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories; home to Cambridge Bay and Ulukhaktok.
- Formation
- Low Arctic lowlands of sedimentary rock with the rugged Shaler Mountains spine in the north-central interior
- Population
- 2,168
- Water
- Arctic Ocean
- Access
- difficult
Every required movement
The passage
to Victoria Island.
Fly to Cambridge Bay (YCB) from Yellowknife with Canadian North; Ulukhaktok (YHI) by air from Inuvik. No roads to the south.
- 01Cambridge Bay Airport (YCB)
Nearest recorded air access
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 02Water crossing
Annual sealift; Northwest Passage cruise traffic in late summer.
Schedule or condition may change · verify - 03Entry check
Canada entry rules.
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What the chart cannot hold
What becomes visible when you follow northwest passage route beyond the familiar map?
Second-largest island of Canada and eighth-largest in the world. Its two hamlets, Cambridge Bay and Ulukhaktok, are centres of Copper Inuit culture on the Northwest Passage route.
Homeland of the Copper Inuit; sighted by Simpson and Dease (1838-39), named for Queen Victoria; explored by Rae (1851) and Stefansson; split between NWT and Nunavut in 1999.
Field ledger
The useful
details.
- Coordinates
- 71.00° N · 110.00° W
- Sovereignty
- Canada · part of country
- Nearest mainland
- Mainland Nunavut/NWT across Dolphin and Union Strait and Coronation Gulf
- Best recorded window
- July–August.
- Permits / entry
- Canada entry rules.
- Languages
- Inuinnaqtun, Inuvialuktun, English
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