Victoria Island is a large island in the Arctic Archipelago that straddles the boundary between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is the eighth-largest island in the world, and at 217,291 km
2 (83,897 sq mi)
1 in area, it is Canada's second-largest island. It is nearly double the size of Newfoundland (111,390 km
2 [43,010 sq mi]), and is slightly larger than the island of Great Britain (209,331 km
2 [80,823 sq mi]) but smaller than Honshu (225,800 km
2 [87,200 sq mi]). The western third of the island lies in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories; the remainder is part of Nunavut's Kitikmeot Region. The population of 2,168 is divided between two settlements, the larger of which is Cambridge Bay (Nunavut) and the other Ulukhaktok.