Victoria Island
Victoria Island, an island in the Arctic Ocean. It belongs to Canada and lies partly in the Northwest Territories and partly in Nunavut. With an area of 83,896 square miles (217,290 km2), Victoria is Canada's second largest island. (Baffin is the largest.) The land is mostly flat, low-lying tundra. Cambridge Bay, with a population of 1,116, is the main settlement. Europeans first sighted Victoria in 1826, but they did not explore its interior until the early 1850's.