Kilian Island^[1] formerly Elvira Island^[2] is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the Viscount Melville Sound, west of Stefansson Island, and north of Victoria Island.

Kilian Island

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Geography
Location	Parry Channel
Coordinates	73°35′N 107°53′W / 73.583°N 107.883°W / 73.583; -107.883 (Kilian Island)
Administration
Canada
Territory	Nunavut
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

It is named for Bernhard Kilian, chief engineer of the Polar Bear who tried to salvage the burning ship Elvira^[3] in September 1913 when the two schooners (the Polar Bear and the Elvira) were frozen in the ice of the Beaufort Sea, along with two ships belonging to Rudolph Martin Anderson's southern team of the Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913–1916.