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Victoria Island (approx. ) is a Canadian Arctic island straddling the boundary between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories of Canada. It is the 9th largest island of the world, and at 217 291 km² is Canada's second largest island and nearly double the size of Newfoundland. The western third of the island belongs to the Northwest Territories Inuvik Region and the remainder is part of Nunavut's Kitikmeot Region. Viscount Melville Sound lies to the north, and the M'Clintock Channel and Victoria Strait lie eastward. The Northwest Territories continue on the mainland to the South across Pease Strait. On the West are Amundsen Gulf and Banks Island, which is separated from Victoria by a long sound called the Prince of Wales Strait.