Loks Land
Loks Land, Nunavut (red circle at right edge)
Loks Land is located in Nunavut
Loks Land
Loks Land
Loks Land is located in Canada
Loks Land
Loks Land
Geography
LocationFrobisher Bay
Coordinates62°26′N 64°38′W / 62.433°N 64.633°W / 62.433; -64.633 (Loks Land Island)[1]
ArchipelagoArctic Archipelago
Area419 km2 (162 sq mi)
Coastline206 km (128 mi)
Administration
Canada
TerritoryNunavut
RegionQikiqtaaluk
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited
A closer view of the island

Loks Land is an uninhabited island in the Arctic Archipelago in Nunavut, Canada. It is located off the eastern tip of Baffin Island's Blunt Peninsula, close to the mouth of Frobisher Bay. It has an area of 419 km2 (162 sq mi) and a coastline of 206 km. The local Inuktitut name for the island is Takuligjuaq.

Loks Land was the site of one of the stations in the Distant Early Warning Line radar defence network, and had the code number BAF-4A.

The island was visited by Martin Frobisher and is named for Michael Lok, a London financier who was one of the patrons of Frobisher's Arctic expeditions of the 1570s. Frobisher's first expedition found ore which was purported to contain gold, leading to a second and third expedition which failed to find any of the precious metal. These later speculative ventures almost bankrupted Lok.

References

  1. "Loks Land". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
  2. "Loks Land". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.


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