Somerset Island

noun

1. an island in the Arctic Ocean in Nunavut, Canada, NW of Baffin Island. 9,594 sq. mi. (24,848 sq. km).

Example Sentences

Somerset Island Prep held a Jet Ski graduation ceremony that took place on the water and complied with coronavirus social distancing measures.

From Fox News

Somerset Island Preparatory is Key West’s only charter high school, established a decade ago.

From Fox News

Unlike bowheads, belugas will travel hundreds of miles to reach their “day spa” on the Cunningham Inlet along Somerset Island, to the northwest of Baffin.

From National Geographic

The passage led to the lee of North Somerset Island, and a towering headland of basalt protected the ship from the fury of the south wind.

From Project Gutenberg

Roald Amundsen, Norway's hero-explorer, in a three-year trip and with the loss of one of his seven men, traversed the first Northwest Passage*�Baffin Bay, Barrow Straight, along the west coast of North Somerset Island to Cambridge Bay and out to Beaufort Sea and the Pacific.

From Time Magazine Archive