List of islands in the Arctic Ocean

These islands of the Arctic Ocean can be classified by the country that controls the territory.

The Arctic Ocean, with borders as delineated by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), including Hudson Bay (some of which is south of 57°N latitude, off the map) and all other marginal seas.

Canada

The islands of the Canadian Arctic over 5,000 km² (1,900 sq mi), in order of descending area, are:^[1] As of 2021^[update] the total population of all islands in the Arctic was 23,073.^[2]^[3]

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Name (group)	Location	Area^[1]		Area rank		Pop (2021^[2]^[3])	Notes	Coordinates
Name (group)	Location	km2	sqmi	World	Canada	Pop (2021^[2]^[3])	Notes	Coordinates
Baffin Island	Nunavut	507,451	195,928	5	1	13,039	Population does not include Kinngait and Qikiqtarjuaq. Both lie on small islands just off the coast of Baffin Island	68°N 70°W^[4]
Victoria Island	Northwest Territories, Nunavut	217,291	83,897	8	2	2,168	Contains the world's largest island within an island within an island^[5]	70°25′N 107°45′W^[6]
Ellesmere Island (Queen Elizabeth Islands)	Nunavut	196,236	75,767	10	3	144	Population includes Grise Fiord, Alert (Canada’s two most northerly communities) and Eureka^[7]	79°50′N 78°00′W^[8]
Banks Island	Northwest Territories	70,028	27,038	24	5	104	The summer home to hundreds of thousands of migratory birds who nest at Banks Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary No. 1 and Banks Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary No. 2^[9]^[10]	72°45′02″N 121°30′10″W^[11]
Devon Island (Queen Elizabeth Islands)	Nunavut	55,247	21,331	27	6	0	The largest uninhabited island on Earth^[12]	75°15′N 088°00′W^[13]
Axel Heiberg Island (Sverdrup Islands, Queen Elizabeth Islands)	Nunavut	43,178	16,671	32	7	0	Known for its unusual fossil forests, which date from the Eocene period^[14]	79°45′N 091°00′W^[15]
Melville Island (Queen Elizabeth Islands)	Northwest Territories, Nunavut	42,149	16,274	33	8	0	The most northerly report of a grizzly bear sighting occurred here in 2003^[16]	75°30′02″N 111°30′09″W^[17]
Southampton Island	Nunavut	41,214	15,913	34	9	1,038	One of the few Canadian areas, and the only area in Nunavut, that does not use daylight saving time^[18]	64°20′N 084°40′W^[19]
Prince of Wales Island	Nunavut	33,339	12,872	40	10	0	North of North is set in the fictional town of Ice Cove, which is situated here^[20]	72°40′N 99°00′W^[21]
Somerset Island	Nunavut	24,786	9,570	46	12	0	Home of Fort Ross (1937-1948), the last trading post established by the Hudson's Bay Company^[22]	73°15′N 93°30′W^[23]
Bathurst Island (Queen Elizabeth Islands)	Nunavut	16,042	6,194	54	13	0	Home of Brooman Point Village, Qausuittuq National Park, and the Polar Bear Pass National Wildlife Area^[24]^[25]^[26]	75°45′N 100°00′W^[27]
Prince Patrick Island (Queen Elizabeth Islands)	Northwest Territories, Nunavut	15,848	6,119	55	14	0	Mould Bay Weather Station, part of the Joint Arctic Weather Station system between Canada and the United States opened in 1948^[28]	76°45′02″N 119°30′12″W^[29]
King William Island	Nunavut	13,111	5,062	61	15	1,349	Sir John Franklin’s two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, were found in what is now the Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site^[30]	69°10′N 97°25′W^[31]
Ellef Ringnes Island (Sverdrup Islands, Queen Elizabeth Islands)	Nunavut	11,295	4,361	68	16	0	Isachsen, opened in 1948, formerly staffed weather station, but now an Automated Surface Observing System^[28]	78°30′N 102°15′W^[32]
Bylot Island	Nunavut	11,067	4,273	71	17	0	Sirmilik National Park is located on the island^[33]	73°13′N 78°34′W^[34]
Prince Charles Island	Nunavut	9,521	3,676	77	19	0	Uninhabited, however Inuit visited the island to hunt caribou^[35]	67°47′N 76°12′W^[36]
Cornwallis Island (Queen Elizabeth Islands)	Nunavut	6,995	2,701	97	21	183	Resolute, the only community, was established in 1953 by forced migration known as the High Arctic relocation^[37]	75°08′N 95°00′W^[38]
Coats Island	Nunavut	5,498	2,123	107	24	0	The last home of the Sadlermiut^[39]	62°30′N 083°00′W^[40]
Amund Ringnes Island (Sverdrup Islands Queen Elizabeth Islands)	Nunavut	5,255	2,029	111	25	0		78°20′N 96°25′W^[41]
Mackenzie King Island (Queen Elizabeth Islands)	Northwest Territories, Nunavut	5,048	1,949	116	26	0		78°02′N 109°50′W^[42]