These
tables refer to major and minor islands. A major island
has a land area exceeding 129 square kilometres, a minor island
is smaller than that. The perimeters of some minor islands
were considered too small to be reliably measured.
All islands were enumerated and the total
island count obtained for each region. Rocks or islets depicted
on 1:250 000 maps as minute dots were not included.
The Canadian Arctic Islands were measured as two geographic
groups: 1) the Queen Elizabeth Islands and 2) Other Arctic
Islands. These two tables make it clear which of the major
islands are in Nunavut (NU), or Northwest Territories (NT).