Resolution Island (Nunavut) Resolution Island (Nunavut) Resolution Island is one of the many uninhabited Canadian Arctic islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. It is a Baffin Island offshore island located in Davis Strait. It has an area of . The Lower Savage Islands lie between Resolution Island and Baffin Island, while Graves Strait separates Resolution Island from the more northern Edgell Island. English explorer Martin Frobisher landed on the island on July 28, 1576, while on a voyage to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. However it appears to have been named Resolution in 1612 by Sir Thomas Button, after his own ship, the "Resolution".
Christopher Middleton (navigator) proceeded north into Roes Welcome Sound and discovered Wager Inlet where he was iced in for three weeks. At the head of the sound he was blocked by ice and named the place Repulse Bay. Middleton returned to England in 1742, where he was presented with the Copley Medal by the Royal Society, to whom he presented a paper on "The extraordinary degrees and surprising effects of Cold in Hudson's Bay". Christopher Middleton (navigator) Christopher Middleton (died 12 February 1770) was a British naval officer and navigator. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on . On ,