Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- An island of northern Nunavut, Canada, in the Arctic Ocean separated from Greenland by a narrow passage. It was first sighted by the English explorer William Baffin in 1616.
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- proper n. The northernmost island of Canada, in Nunavut
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Examples
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What the hell is a submarine doing directly off the coast of Ellesmere Island without my knowledge?
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"One piece keeps skimming, tumbling toward Ellesmere Island …" He brought it right up to her toe.
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Located above the Eighty-second Parallel on the northernmost coast of Ellesmere Island in the high Arctic, the Milne Ice Shelf is four miles wide and reaches thicknesses of over three hundred feet.
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