Killiniq Island situated on what is now the Nunavut side of the island, part of the territory's Qikiqtaaluk Region. The locality was known by Europeans as early as 1569, marked on a Mercator map. The island is now uninhabited. An automated remote radio transmitter for Iqaluit Coast Guard Radio remains in operation. Killiniq Island Killiniq Island (English: "ice floes") is a small, remote island in northeastern Canada. Located at the extreme northern tip of Labrador between Ungava Bay and the Labrador Sea, it is notable in that it contains the only land border between Nunavut territory and the province of Newfoundland and
Weddell Island named in association with him. The island was discovered in 1766 by the British navigator and accomplished military commander John MacBride during the first hydrographic survey of the Falklands archipelago carried out by his ship HMS "Jason" out of Port Egmont, the early British settlement situated on Saunders Island off the northwest coast of West Falkland. Of his new discoveries Capt. MacBride wrote unfavourably: "We found a mass of islands and broken lands, beaten by storms almost perpetual". His temperature records for the area were more agreeable though. In January and February the thermometer rose to , but no higher;