Haughton Crater
Image: Airborne synthetic aperture radar image of Haughton Crater. North is to the top and the crater is about 20 km wide. Note that the Haughton River breaches the crater rim to the northeast and flows into Thomas Lee Inlet.
Devon Island is located in the Territory of Nunavut in Canada less than a thousand miles from the North Pole. Devon Island is also the largest uninhabited island on Earth, with a surface area of approximately 66,800 square kilometers.
One of the prime reasons why space researchers and planetary geologists are interested in Devon Island is that it has a large meteor crater - Haughton crater. Haughton crater is named after Reverend Samuel Haughton, a british naturalist who wrote the first account of the geology of this region in the 1850s.
