List of Canadian islands by area explained

This is a list of Canadian islands as ordered by area. It includes all 50 islands with an area greater than 1000km2. The total area of these islands is 1,545,444 km².

Islands over 1,000 km²

Rank	World rank	Name	Area (km^2)	Area (sq mi)	Territory or province	Permanent population (2016)	class=unsortable	Notes	class=unsortable	Refs
1	5		507451km2		13,148	Population does not include Kinngait and Qikiqtarjuaq. Both lie on small islands just off the coast of Baffin Island.	^[1] ^[2]
2	8		217291km2		2,162	Contains the world's largest island within an island within an island.	^[3] ^[4]
3	10		196236km2		191	Population includes Grise Fiord, Alert and Eureka.
4	16		108860km2		492,519	The largest island in Canada outside the Arctic. Population obtained by subtracting the population of Labrador from the total population.	^[5] ^[6]
5	24		70028km2		113
6	27		55247km2		0	The largest uninhabited island on Earth.
7	32		43178km2		0
8	33		42149km2		0
9	34		41214km2		891
10	40		33339km2		0
11	43		31285km2		813,543		^[7]
12	46		24786km2		0	Site of Fort Ross, Nunavut, last trading post established by the Hudson's Bay Company.
13	54		16042km2		0	Site of Brooman Point Village, a Dorset, Paleo-Eskimo and Thule village.
14	55		15848km2		0	Home of the now abandoned Mould Bay Weather Station.
15	61		13111km2		1,324	John Franklin abandoned his ships in the area.
16	68		11295km2		0
17	71		11067km2		0	Although uninhabited Inuit from Pond Inlet travel to the island.
18	76		10311km2		132,010		^[8]
19	77		9521km2		0
20	89		7941km2		218		^[9]
21	97		6995km2		198
22	101		6361km2		4,475
23	104		5620km2		142,907		^[10]
24	107		5498km2		0	The last home of the Sadlermiut people.
25	111		5255km2		0
26	116		5048km2		0
27	128		4463km2		0
28	159		3180km2		0
29	162		3001km2		0	Part of the Attawapiskat First Nation's traditional territory
30	171		2794km2		0
31	173		2766km2		13,255	World's largest lake island.	^[11] ^[12]
32	175		2608km2		296		^[13]
33	186		2358km2		0
34	191		2251km2		0
35	196		2165km2		0
36	206		2020km2		0	World's second largest lake island.
37	227		1720km2		0	First written record of the island's existence was in 1948.
38	244		1585km2		882	The largest of the Belcher Islands and the site of the southernmost community in Nunavut.
39	248		1541km2		0
40	266		1378km2		0
41	267		1375km2		0
42	268		1372km2		0	The island became uninhabited in October 1970
43	274		1308km2		0
44	296		1150km2		0
45	299		1137km2		0
46	300		1126km2		0
47	307		1090km2		0	Site of an unmanned Distant Early Warning Line base, called FOX-1 at 69.0669°N -79.065°W, and an Automated Surface Observing System.
48	312		1059km2		0
49	318		1015km2		0	Site of CFS Resolution Island.
50	320		1005km2		0

See also

• List of Canadian islands by population
• List of islands of Canada
• Lists of islands

External links

• United Nations Environment Programme list of islands by area
• Sea Islands, Natural Resources Canada, The Atlas of Canada
• Canadian Islands at Joshua Calder's World Island Information
• Arctic Archipelago, M.J. Dunbar and Peter Adams, The Canadian Encyclopedia, 03/09/06

Notes and References

1. Web site: Atlas of Canada - Sea Islands . Atlas.nrcan.gc.ca . 2009-08-12 . 2019-08-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20130122002132/http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/learningresources/facts/islands.html . 2013-01-22.
2. Web site: Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Nunavut) . . 2018-08-08.
3. Web site: Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Northwest Territories) . . 2018-08-08.
4. Web site: Wolchover. Natalie. World's Largest Island-in-a-lake-on-an-island-in-a-lake-on-an-island Seen on Google Earth. LiveScience. September 15, 2013. January 24, 2012.
5. Web site: Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Newfoundland and Labrador) . . 2018-08-08.
6. Web site: Census Profile, 2016 Census Labrador [Federal electoral district], Newfoundland and Labrador and Newfoundland and Labrador [Province] (Labrador) ]. . 2018-08-08.
7. Web site: Sub-provincial Population Estimates . BC Stats . 2018-08-08. The largest island on the Pacific coast of North America.
8. Web site: Census Profile, 2016 Census Cape Breton [Economic region], Nova Scotia and Nova Scotia [Province] (Cape Breton) ]. . 2018-08-08.
9. Web site: Census Profile, 2016 Census L'Île-d'Anticosti, Municipalité [Census subdivision], Quebec and Minganie--Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent, Census division [Census division], Quebec (L'Île-d'Anticosti) ]. . 2018-08-08.
10. Web site: Census Profile, 2016 Census Prince Edward Island [Province] and Canada [Country] (Prince Edward Island) ]. . 2018-08-08.
11. Web site: Joshua Calder's World Island Info - Largest Lake Islands of the World . Worldislandinfo.com . 2016-01-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110928120332/http://www.worldislandinfo.com/LAKEV1.htm . 2011-09-28 . dead .
12. Web site: Census Profile, 2016 Census Manitoulin, District [Census division], Ontario and Ontario [Province] (Manitoulin Island) ]. . 2018-08-08.
13. Web site: Census Profile, 2016 Census Sandspit, Unincorporated place [Designated place], British Columbia and British Columbia [Province] (Sandspit) ]. . 2018-08-08.