Solomons Temple Islands

{{Short description|Island group in Nunavut, Canada}}

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| location = Northern Canada

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The Solomons Temple Islands (variants: Solomon's Temple Islands; Solomons Temple Island) are an uninhabited Canadian arctic islands group located within the midsection of James Bay in Nunavut, Canada. They are situated north of Charlton Island,{{cite web|url=http://www.oceandots.com/arctic/canada/charlton.php |title=Charlton Island |publisher=oceandots.com |access-date=2009-04-20 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223015139/http://www.oceandots.com/arctic/canada/charlton.php |archive-date=December 23, 2010 }} and southwest of Paint Hills Islands, Pointe au Huard and Andrew Moar Bay ({{coord|52.8|-78.8}}),Manning, p. 4

Solomons Temple Islands are {{convert|4|km|abbr=on}} in size.Atlas of Canada

History

In 1950, Thomas Henry Manning studied unusually high tide driftwood strand lines on Solomons Temple's northern exposed beach.{{cite journal|last=Manning|first=T.H.|title=Remarks on the Tides and Driftwood Strand Lines along the East Coast of James Bay|journal=Arctic|publisher=ucalgary.ca|volume=4|issue=2|doi=10.14430/arctic3940|year=1951|s2cid=129238250 |url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e1ac/6d9c555fee68b13fec19ebe1b4247cff2b06.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228210745/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e1ac/6d9c555fee68b13fec19ebe1b4247cff2b06.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-02-28}}

References

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{{Islands of the Qikiqtaaluk Region}}

Category:Uninhabited islands of Qikiqtaaluk Region

Category:Islands of James Bay

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