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Devon Island (Inuit: ''Tatlurutit''),〔Jerry Kobalenko. ''The Horizontal Everest: Extreme Journeys on Ellesmere Island''. BPS Books, 2010〕 claimed to be the largest uninhabited island on Earth, is located in Baffin Bay, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is one of the larger members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the second-largest of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada's sixth largest island, and the 27th largest island in the world. It comprises (slightly smaller than Croatia) of Precambrian gneiss and Paleozoic siltstones and shales.〔http://basementgeographer.com/devon-island-the-largest-uninhabited-island-on-earth/〕 The highest point is the Devon Ice Cap at which is part of the Arctic Cordillera. Devon Island contains several small mountain ranges, such as the Treuter Mountains, Haddington Range and the Cunningham Mountains. ==History and settlement== Robert Bylot and William Baffin were the first Europeans to sight the island in 1616. William Edward Parry charted its south coast in 1819-20, and named it North Devon, after Devon, England, a name which was changed to Devon Island by the end of the 1800s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Devon Island: The Largest Uninhabited Island on Earth )〕 In 1850 Edwin De Haven sailed up Wellington Channel and sighted the Grinnell Peninsula. An outpost was established at Dundas Harbour in 1924, and it was leased to Hudson's Bay Company nine years later. The collapse of fur prices led to the dispersal of 53 Baffin Island Inuit families on the island in 1934. It was considered a disaster due to wind conditions and the much colder climate, and the Inuit chose to leave in 1936. Dundas Harbour was populated again in the late 1940s, but it was closed again in 1951. Only the ruins of a few buildings remain. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Devon Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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