Stefansson Island

Stefansson Island is an uninhabited island in the Arctic Archipelago in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada. It has a total area of, making it the 128th largest island in the world, and List of [Canadian islands by area|Canada's 27th largest island]. The island is located in Viscount Melville Sound, with M'Clintock Channel to the east. It lies just off Victoria Island's Storkerson Peninsula, separated by the Goldsmith Channel. Stefansson Island's highest mount is.
A weather station, at, is located on the northern part of the island as part of an automated weather station array operated by Environment and [Climate Change Canada] in the Arctic.
The first European sighting of the island was in 1917 by Storker T. Storkerson who was travelling with Canadian explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, for whom the island was named.