Joe Island was named after Joe (Ipiirvik or Ebierbing), an Inuit guide who accompanied Charles Francis Hall in the 1871 Polaris expedition.

[2][3] Joe Island lies in the Kennedy Channel at the limit of the Hall Basin.

It is located about 4 km north of Cape Morton, off the northern end of the Petermann Peninsula, to the northwest of the mouth of Petermann Fjord.

The waters around the island are icebound most of the year.

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