Qikiqtarjuaq (Tennent Island)
- Terra MODIS
- 08 July 2003
- 03:15 UTC
Qikiqtarjuaq (sometimes Tennent Island or Tennent Islands) is located within the James Ross Strait — the 50 km wide
stretch of water that separates King William Island (at the bottom-left corner of the
above image) from the southwestern sections of the Canadian mainland's Boothia Peninsula (at top-right). Its largest
immediate neighbour is the horseshoe-shaped Matty Island, located 3.7 km to the east across
the Wellington Strait. Thomson Point, on King William Island, lies just 3.5 km to the southwest across the Humboldt
Channel.
Like King William Island, Qikiqtarjuaq presents a low-lying, lake-studded landscape with very little in the way of vertical relief — average elevations range between 5 m and 20 m, with a maximum of around 55 m occurring near the island's centre. Large areas of the island consist of sandy material and and other loosely compacted materials. The island has a maximum length of 34 km (along the western coast), a maximum width of 17 km and covers an area of 308 km².
image: MODIS rapid response project at nasa/goddard space flight center.
