List of Canadian islands by area

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

Islands over 1,000 km2

Rank World
rank 		Name Area
(km2) 		Area
(sq mi) 		Territory or
province 		Permanent
population
(2016) 		Notes Refs
1 5 Baffin Island Template:Convert Nunavut 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 Victoria Island Template:Convert Northwest Territories, Nunavut 2,162 Contains the world's largest island within an island within an island. [1][2][3][4]
3 10 Ellesmere Island Template:Convert Nunavut 191 Population includes Grise Fiord, Alert and Eureka. [1][2]
4 16 Newfoundland Template:Convert Newfoundland and Labrador 492,519 The largest island in Canada outside the Arctic. Population obtained by subtracting the population of Labrador from the total population. [1][5][6]
5 24 Banks Island Template:Convert Northwest Territories 113 [1][3]
6 27 Devon Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 The largest uninhabited island on Earth. [1]
7 32 Axel Heiberg Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 [1]
8 33 Melville Island Template:Convert Northwest Territories, Nunavut 0 [1]
9 34 Southampton Island Template:Convert Nunavut 891 [1][2]
10 40 Prince of Wales Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 [1]
11 43 Vancouver Island Template:Convert British Columbia 813,543 [1][7]
12 46 Somerset Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 Site of Fort Ross, Nunavut, last trading post established by the Hudson's Bay Company. [1]
13 54 Bathurst Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 Site of Brooman Point Village, a Dorset, Paleo-Eskimo and Thule village. [1]
14 55 Prince Patrick Island Template:Convert Northwest Territories 0 Home of the now abandoned Mould Bay Weather Station. [1]
15 61 King William Island Template:Convert Nunavut 1,324 John Franklin abandoned his ships in the area. [1][2]
16 68 Ellef Ringnes Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 Home of Isachsen, a formerly staffed weather station, but now an Automated Surface Observing System [1]
17 71 Bylot Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 Although uninhabited, Inuit from Pond Inlet travel to the island. [1]
18 76 Cape Breton Island Template:Convert Nova Scotia 132,010 [1][8]
19 77 Prince Charles Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 [1][2]
20 89 Anticosti Island Template:Convert Quebec 218 [1][9]
21 97 Cornwallis Island Template:Convert Nunavut 198 [1][2]
22 101 Graham Island Template:Convert British Columbia 4,475 [1]
23 104 Prince Edward Island Template:Convert Prince Edward Island 142,907 [1][10]
24 107 Coats Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 The last home of the Sadlermiut people. [1]
25 111 Amund Ringnes Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 [1]
26 116 Mackenzie King Island Template:Convert Northwest Territories, Nunavut 0 [1]
27 128 Stefansson Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 [1]
28 159 Mansel Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 [1]
29 162 Akimiski Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 Part of the Attawapiskat First Nation's traditional territory [1]
30 171 Borden Island Template:Convert Northwest Territories, Nunavut 0 [1]
31 173 Manitoulin Island Template:Convert Ontario 13,255 World's largest lake island. [11][12]
32 175 Moresby Island Template:Convert British Columbia 296 [1][13]
33 186 Cornwall Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 [1]
34 191 Princess Royal Island Template:Convert British Columbia 0 [1]
35 196 Richards Island Template:Convert Northwest Territories 0 [1]
36 206 René-Levasseur Island Template:Convert Quebec 0 World's second largest lake island. [11]
37 227 Air Force Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 First written record of the island's existence was in 1948. [1]
38 244 Flaherty Island Template:Convert Nunavut 882 The largest of the Belcher Islands and the site of the southernmost community in Nunavut. [1][3]
39 248 Eglinton Island Template:Convert Northwest Territories 0 [1]
40 266 Graham Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 [1]
41 267 Pitt Island Template:Convert British Columbia 0 [1]
42 268 Nottingham Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 The island became uninhabited in October 1970 [1]
43 274 Lougheed Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 [1]
44 296 Byam Martin Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 [1]
45 299 Wales Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 [1]
46 300 Île Vanier Template:Convert Nunavut 0 [1]
47 307 Rowley Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 Site of an unmanned Distant Early Warning Line base, called FOX-1 at Template:Coord, and an Automated Surface Observing System. [1]
48 312 Cameron Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 From 1985 to 1996 the double-hulled tanker M.V.Arctic shipped the light crude from Bent Horn in the south-west of the island to Montreal [1]
49 318 Resolution Island Template:Convert Nunavut 0 Site of CFS Resolution Island. [1]
50 320 Banks Island Template:Convert British Columbia 0 [1]

See also

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References

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