Lowther Island

{{Short description|Canadian Arctic island}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

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| location = Northern Canada

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| archipelago = Queen Elizabeth Islands
Arctic Archipelago

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| country_admin_divisions = Nunavut

| country_admin_divisions_title_1 = Qikiqtaaluk Region

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Lowther Island lies within the Arctic Archipelago in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Canada's territory of Nunavut. It is one of the mid-channel islands in the western sector of Barrow Strait.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J9KK4p5Fb6AC&q=%22Lowther+Island%22+&pg=PA101 |page=101 |title=Canadian Yearbook of International Law |last=Bourne |first=Charles B. |year=1963 |publisher=Publication Centre, University of British Columbia |location=Vancouver |oclc=2442067 |isbn=978-0-7748-0127-0}} Bathurst Island and Cornwallis Island are to the north, while Prince of Wales Island is to the south.{{cite book |pages=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bYMpwN0COjAC&q=%22barrow+strait%22&pg=PA7 |title=The Northwest Passage: Arctic Straits |last=Pharand |first=Donat |author2=Legault, L.H. |year=1984 |publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |isbn=90-247-2979-3}} The island is clustered within a group of uninhabited islands. It is {{convert|15.5|mi|abbr=on}} northeast of Young Island, separated by the Kettle Passage, a shipping route, and {{Convert|13|mi|abbr=on}} southeast of Garrett Island, separated by Hayes Channel.

Lowther Island is {{convert|17|mi|abbr=on}} long, {{convert|2|-|6|mi|abbr=on}} wide,{{cite web |url=http://bartleby.net/69/20/L06820.html |title=Lowther Island |access-date=2008-04-28 |date=2000 |publisher= The Columbia Gazetteer of North America}} and {{convert|145|km2|abbr=on}}. It is rimmed by raised beaches, the highest being at {{convert|106.5|m|abbr=on}}. above sea level. Gourdeau Point is on the island's south side, and Lowther Shoal is to the south/southeast.{{cite web |url=http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/bitstream/1957/7495/1/DR_no_163.pdf |title=Physical Oceanographic Observations from the Resolute 1995 Ice Camp, Barrow Strait |access-date=2008-04-28 |last1=Crawford |first1=G. |last2=Padman |first2=L. |date=February 1997 |pages=39–40 |publisher=Oregon State University}}