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10. Ellesmere Island

Location: Canada, North America

Area: 71,029 sq miles

Population: 146

Population Density: 0.0019/sq miles

The 10th largest island on earth is another one in the Canadian Arctic Circle. Despite its notable size, only 146 people call Ellesmere Island home. The Cordillera mountain range dominates most of the isle, making it the most mountainous in the archipelago. Ellesmere Island is so inhospitable that it wasn’t successfully circumnavigated until 2011. The arduous journey took a grand total of 104 days, and the two men on the mission apparently had to stave off a “breaching 3,000-pound walrus from the cockpit of a small sea kayak.”

Ellesmere Island Natalie Gillis / Getty Images
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