Umingmalik

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

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| native_name_link = Inuktitut

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| location = M'Clintock Channel

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| archipelago = Arctic Archipelago

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| area_km2 = 220

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| country = Canada

| country_admin_divisions_title = Territory

| country_admin_divisions = Nunavut

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| population = Uninhabited

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Umingmalik formerly Gateshead Island{{Cite web|last=Government of Canada|first=Natural Resources Canada|title=Place names - Umingmalik|url=http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/0c739b8f849c20c361daac4ec8a6b5a2|access-date=2021-07-04|website=www4.rncan.gc.ca|archive-date=2017-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170725010243/http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique/0c739b8f849c20c361daac4ec8a6b5a2|url-status=live}} is an island located in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada. Located in M'Clintock Channel, the area of Gateshead Island is around {{convert|220|km2|abbr=on}}.{{cite web|title=Gateshead Island|url=http://www.oceandots.com/arctic/canada/gateshead.php|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223043232/http://www.oceandots.com/arctic/canada/gateshead.php|archive-date=December 23, 2010|access-date=2009-03-14}} It is an important polar bear denning area.{{Cite web |url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic37-2-169.pdf |title=Polar Bear Denning Area at Gateshead Island, Northwest Territories |access-date=2007-11-28 |archive-date=2011-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524140200/http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic37-2-169.pdf |url-status=live }}

This is a different island than the one visited by Richard Collinson, commanding HMS Enterprise, while searching for John Franklin.{{cite book|last=Barr|first=William|author-link=William Barr (Arctic historian)|title=Arctic Hell-Ship: The Voyage of HMS Enterprise 1850-1855|url=https://archive.org/details/arctichellshipvo00barr|url-access=registration|quote=gateshead island.|date=2007-06-01|publisher=The University of Alberta Press|isbn=978-0-88864-472-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/arctichellshipvo00barr/page/235 235]|chapter=Chapter 13. Results and Reactions, Then and Later}}