Devon Island

noun

1. an island in the Nunavut Territory, N Canada. 20,900 sq. mi. (54,100 sq. km).

Example Sentences

Off Devon Island, the largest uninhabited island in the world, they risked running aground due to the area being poorly charted.

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“It looks like Mars,” says Keith of where they are anchored, in Devon Island.

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Compared with the landscapes of Devon Island, fistfuls of regolith simulant or even a test-tube moon, Dr. Hörst’s lab planets lack physicality.

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Dr. Lee runs the Haughton-Mars Project, an analog research facility on Devon Island, an uninhabited, barren Arctic outpost in Nunavut, Canada.

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“When you are there, you are the population of Devon Island,” Dr. Lee said, just like a lonely astronaut.

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