Devon Island
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Off Devon Island, the largest uninhabited island in the world, they risked running aground due to the area being poorly charted.
From BBC
“It looks like Mars,” says Keith of where they are anchored, in Devon Island.
From BBC
Compared with the landscapes of Devon Island, fistfuls of regolith simulant or even a test-tube moon, Dr. Hörst’s lab planets lack physicality.
From New York Times
Dr. Lee runs the Haughton-Mars Project, an analog research facility on Devon Island, an uninhabited, barren Arctic outpost in Nunavut, Canada.
From New York Times
“When you are there, you are the population of Devon Island,” Dr. Lee said, just like a lonely astronaut.
From New York Times
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