• Devon Island (Inuktitut: ᑕᓪᓗᕈᑎᑦ, Tallurutit) is an island in Canada and the largest uninhabited island (no permanent residents) in the world.
  • Devon Island in Baffin Bay, belonging to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is the largest uninhabited island on Earth, and for good reasons.
  • Located in close proximity to Greenland, uninhabited Devon Island is believed to be the closest landscape on Earth to the Red Planet.
  • This is it. Devon Island it will be! This will be quite something - as I never had the chance to visit a polar desert before.
  • Baffin Island, the largest island in Canada, is located just south of Devon on the other side of the bay. Alternatively, you can book a plane to Devon.
  • The cold and dry climate of Devon Island has kept the crater in excellent condition and is, in fact, one of the best-preserved impact sites on Earth.
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  • The island was first sighted by William Baffin in 1616 and was named North Devon by W.E. PARRY for Devon, England.
  • After Devon in England, the name was changed to Devon Island by the end of the 1800s. In 1924, an outpost was established at Dundas Harbour.