Revealed: The world's largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island (and it's probably never had a human visitor)
- Measuring about four acres, the unnamed islet is in the Canadian Arctic
- It is an island within an island within sparsely populated Victoria Island
- Tiny island has no access routes and is miles from the nearest settlement
It’s said to be the world’s largest island within an island within an island – but it has probably never been visited by a human.
Measuring about four acres, this unnamed islet in the Arctic is set within a small lake which is on a slightly larger island within a bigger lake on Canada’s enormous Victoria Island.
It’s likely that no one has ever stepped foot on it, however, as it has no access routes and it is miles from the nearest settlement on barren and sparsely populated Victoria Island, the eighth largest island in the world.
This unnamed islet (circled) in Northern Canada is the world’s largest island within an island within an island
Measuring about four acres, the islet is located on Victoria Island, the eighth largest island in the world
About 75 miles inland from Victoria Island’s southern coast, the islet (69.793° N, 108.241° W) was pointed out by record-setting Jeopardy champion and Maphead author Ken Jennings, although he did not make the original discovery.
It was written about as early as 2007.
Before this discovery, the world’s largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island was thought to be at Luzon, in the Philippines.
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Located on the Northwest Passage, Victoria Island is home to less than 2,000 people, mostly Inuit, plus polar bears and caribou, and welcomes very few tourists because it is so remote and so cold (the overnight temperature was -33C).
The vast island is nearly 84,000 square miles – slightly larger than the island of Great Britain, which is home to more than 60 million people.
Cambridge Bay, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest settlement on Victoria Island
Located on the boundary of Nunavut and Northwest Territories – two of Canada’s three territories – Victoria Island experiences 24 hours of darkness for more than a month in winter and 24 hours of sunlight for two months in spring and summer due to its polar climate.
The world’s largest island within an island within an island is located on the Nunavut side of Victoria Island, which was named after Queen Victoria.
It has a peninsula named after her consort, Prince Albert, and the Tunnunik impact crater was once called the Prince Albert impact crater.
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