King William Island

American  

noun

1. an island in the Arctic Ocean, in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, in the W Nunavut Territory, Canada. 5,062 sq. mi. (13,111 sq. km).

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Example Sentences

A note left by members of the expedition on King William Island, and found by explorers in 1859, revealed that Sir John Franklin died on 11 June 1847.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2023

Gregory’s remains were excavated in 2013 on King William Island, about 50 miles south of the site where the ships had been deserted.

From New York Times • May 5, 2021

Experts believe that the ships were lost in 1848 after they became locked in the ice near King William Island and that the crews abandoned them in a hopeless bid to reach safety.

From Fox News • Jan. 9, 2019

Inuit knowledge was to come to the fore again 150 years later when it helped direct modern marine archaeologists to the area around King William Island, close to the wrecks’ locations.

From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2017

In 1859, a message found by a search party on King William Island stated that both the Erebus and the Terror were trapped in ice in late 1846 and remained so for about eighteen months.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler