Withdrawal from Disposal Order Aulavik (Banks Island) National Park, Northwest Territories (SI/99-53)

In the Northwest Territories;

on Banks Island;

All that parcel being more particularly described as follows:

All topographic features hereinafter referred to being according to the First Edition of the Cape M’Clure map sheet, and the Second Edition of the Mercy Bay, White Sand Creek, Deans Dundas Bay, Jesse Harbour and Bernard River map sheets, 98E, 88F, 88C, 88B, 98A and 98D and C of the National Topographic System, produced at a scale of 1:250,000 by the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources at Ottawa (map sheets 98E, 88B and 88C being produced by the Army Survey Establishment, R.C.E.). All coordinates are derived from the above mentioned map sheet series being referred to the 1927 Datum.

Commencing at a point on the ordinary low water mark of M’Clure Strait at the mouth of an unnamed creek at approximate latitude 74°16′37″ north and approximate longitude 117°58′44″ west;

thence southeasterly in a straight line an approximate distance of 28 kilometres to a point at latitude 74°02′51″ north and longitude 117°38′20″ west;

thence southerly in a straight line an approximate distance of 24 kilometres to a point at latitude 73°50′00″ north and longitude 117°38′00″ west;

thence west in a straight line an approximate distance of 11 kilometres to a point at latitude 73°50′00″ north and longitude 118°00′00″ west;

thence south in a straight line an approximate distance of 48 kilometres to a point of latitude 73°24′00″ north and longitude 118°00′00″ west;

thence southwesterly in a straight line an approximate distance of 23 kilometres to a point at latitude 73°16′00″ north and longitude 118°32′00″ west;

thence west in a straight line an approximate distance of 21 kilometres to a point at latitude 73°16′00″ north and longitude 119°12′00″ west;

thence south in a straight line an approximate distance of 35 kilometres to a point of latitude 72°57′00″ north and longitude 119°12′00″ west;

thence west in a straight line an approximate distance of 32 kilometres to a point at latitude 72°57′00″ north and longitude 120°10′00″ west;

thence north in a straight line an approximate distance of 47 kilometres to a point at latitude 73°22′00″ north and longitude 120°10′00″ west;

thence northwesterly in a straight line an approximate distance of 30 kilometres to a point of latitude 73°30′00″ north and longitude 121°00′00″ west;

thence north in a straight line an approximate distance of 6 kilometres to a point at latitude 73°33′00″ north and longitude 121°00′00″ west;

thence west in a straight line an approximate distance of 8 kilometres to a point at latitude 73°33′00″ north and longitude 121°15′00″ west;

thence north in a straight line an approximate distance of 4 kilometres to a point at latitude 73°35′00″ north and longitude 121°15′00″ west;

thence west in a straight line an approximate distance of 10 kilometres to a point at latitude 73°35′00″ north and longitude 121°35′00″ west;

thence north in a straight line an approximate distance of 13 kilometres to a point at latitude 73°42′00″ north and longitude 121°35′00″ west;

thence east in a straight line an approximate distance of 11 kilometres to a point at latitude 73°42′00″ north and longitude 121°14′00″ west;

thence north in a straight line an approximate distance of 86 kilometres to a point at latitude 74°28′00″ north and longitude 121°14′00″ west;

thence northeasterly in a straight line an approximate distance of 6 kilometres to the point of intersection of the ordinary low water mark on the south side of M’Clure Strait with latitude 74°29′00″ north at approximate longitude 121°02′56″ west;

thence southeasterly following the ordinary low water mark of the south side of M’Clure Strait to the western end of the sand or gravel bar located at the mouth of Castel Bay, at approximate latitude 74°14′29″ north approximate longitude 119°40′00″ west;

thence easterly along the northerly side of said sand or gravel bar extending across the mouth of Castel Bay and the ordinary low water mark of M’Clure Strait to the most northerly tip of Mahogany Point;

thence easterly, southerly, easterly, northerly and northeasterly following the ordinary low water mark of the south side of M’Clure Strait and the westerly, southerly and easterly sides of Mercy Bay and the said south side of M’Clure Strait to a point of commencement.

Containing approximately 12,200 square kilometres.

Including all mines and minerals, including hydrocarbons, whether solid, liquid or gaseous, and rights to work the same;

Saving and excepting therefrom and reserving thereout any substances or materials that may be disposed of pursuant to the Territorial Quarrying Regulations; and

Saving and excepting therefrom and reserving thereout timber that may disposed of pursuant to the Forest Management Act of the Northwest Territories.

Saving and excepting therefrom and reserving thereout Reserve number 88F/4-1-2 in the name of the Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, Government of the Northwest Territories, as shown in the record of the Land Administration in Yellowknife under file number 88F/4-1.