Eight Bears Island

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Eight Bears Island is an uninhabited island in the Parry Islands sub-group of the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada. It lies roughly equidistant between Mackenzie King Island and Emerald Isle, immediately east of Fitzwilliam Owen Island. Its name comes from the explorer Edwin Willard Deming whose family was nicknamed "The Eight Bears".

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