Mansel Island (original) (raw)

• • MLA 8TH EDITION
  • Finlayson, Douglas. "Mansel Island". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 23 January 2014, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mansel-island. Accessed 22 October 2024.
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• • APA 6TH EDITION
  • Finlayson, D. (2014). Mansel Island. In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mansel-island
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• • CHICAGO 17TH EDITION
  • Finlayson, Douglas. "Mansel Island." The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Article published February 07, 2006; Last Edited January 23, 2014.
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• • TURABIAN 8TH EDITION
  • The Canadian Encyclopedia, s.v. "Mansel Island," by Douglas Finlayson, Accessed October 22, 2024, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mansel-island
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Published Online February 7, 2006

Last Edited January 23, 2014

Mansel Island, 112 km long by 48 km wide, is the smallest of 3 islands lying across the entrance to HUDSON BAY. Its topography features a gently undulating limestone lowland with elevations not exceeding 100 m.

Mansel Island, 112 km long by 48 km wide, is the smallest of 3 islands lying across the entrance to HUDSON BAY. Its topography features a gently undulating limestone lowland with elevations not exceeding 100 m. The entire island was submerged under higher sea levels at the end of the last glaciation. A legacy of this marine transgression is the particularly striking relic beach deposits and elevated former shoreline features. The island itself is an outcrop of ancient resistant marine sediments and is part of an elongated escarpment extending 725 km along the north and east margin of Hudson Bay.