Devon Island

Devon Island is the largest uninhabited island on Earth. It 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 55247km2 of Precambrian gneiss and Paleozoic siltstones and shales. The highest point is the Devon Ice Cap at 1920m 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 settlementRobert 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 in England, a name which was changed to Devon Island by the end of the 1800s. In 1850 Edwin De Haven sailed up Wellington Channel and sighted the Grinnell Peninsula.