Doak Island

Island in Nunavut, Canada
68°23′N 111°26′W / 68.383°N 111.433°W / 68.383; -111.433 (Doak Island)ArchipelagoCanadian Arctic ArchipelagoAdministration
Canada
TerritoryNunavutRegionKitikmeotDemographicsPopulationUninhabited

Doak Island is an island located within Coronation Gulf, south of Victoria Island, in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is approximately 4 m (13 ft) above sea level.[1]

It was named after Corporal William Andrew Doak, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.[2] Doak was killed by his Inuit prisoner, Alikomiak, in 1922 at Kugluktuk.[3] Alikomiak and his fellow prisoner Tatimagana were the first Inuit to be executed for murder under Canadian law.[4]

Other islands in the vicinity include Bate Island, Murray Island, Edinburgh Island, and Takhoalok Island, as well as the Sesqui Islands.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Doak Island ca. 4 m m". geonames.org. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
  2. ^ Hulgaard, William Joseph; White, John Wesley (2002). Honoured in Places: Remembered Mounties Across Canada. Heritage House Publishing Co. ISBN 978-1-894384-39-1.
  3. ^ Komar, Debra (2019-03-16). The Court of Better Fiction: Three Trials, Two Executions, and Arctic Sovereignty. Dundurn. ISBN 978-1-4597-4409-7.
  4. ^ "Alikomiak and Tatimagana | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  5. ^ "Doak Island". travelingluck.com. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
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Islands of the Kitikmeot Region
 Islands of Bathurst InletIslands of Coronation GulfIslands of the Gulf of Boothia
Islands in italics are inhabited. See also Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Islands of the Kivalliq Region, Islands of the Qikiqtaaluk Region


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