Boothia and Melville peninsulas, Nunavut, Canada.

Boothia Peninsula (formerly Boothia Felix) is a large peninsula in the Canadian Arctic, south of Somerset Island. The northern part, Murchison Promontory, is the northernmost point of mainland Canada, and thus North America. Download high resolution version (514x613, 72 KB)Boothia and Melville Peninsulas, Nunavut Territory, Canada File links The following pages link to this file: User:Geo Swan Melville Peninsula Boothia Peninsula Categories: GFDL images ... Download high resolution version (514x613, 72 KB)Boothia and Melville Peninsulas, Nunavut Territory, Canada File links The following pages link to this file: User:Geo Swan Melville Peninsula Boothia Peninsula Categories: GFDL images ... A peninsula in Croatia A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered on three or more sides by water. ... The red line indicates the 10°C isotherm in July, commonly used to define the Arctic region border Satellite image of the Arctic surface The Arctic is the region around the Earths North Pole, opposite the Antarctic region around the South Pole. ... Somerset Island within Nunavut This article is about Somerset Island in Canada. ... Murchison Promontory on Boothia Peninsula is the northernmost point on mainland Canada, as well as North America at . The distance to the North Pole is 2014 km (1251 mi / 1087 nm), or 64 km less than the distance from Point Barrow, Alaska to the Pole. ... North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ...

The peninsula was named by the Scottish explorer John Ross in 1829 after Felix Booth, the patron of Ross's second expedition. Ross encountered a large Inuit community whom he described as living in "snow cottages" (i.e. igloos) and immortalized in Ross's painting North Hendon[1]. It has been suggested that Scottish ethnicity be merged into this article or section. ... Engraving of Ross Sir John Ross (June 24, 1777 – August 30, 1856) was a British rear admiral and Arctic explorer. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Sir Felix Booth (1775 Roydon, Essex – January 24, 1850 Brighton, Sussex) was a wealthy UK gin distiller. ... For other uses, see Inuit (disambiguation). ... Igloo An igloo (Inuit language: iglu, Inuktitut syllabics: ᐃᒡᓗ, house, plural: iglooit or igluit), translated sometimes as snowhouse, is a shelter constructed from blocks of snow, generally in the form of a dome. ...

The north magnetic pole was at one point located here by Ross. Part of the Carta Marina of 1539 by Olaus Magnus, depicting the location of magnetic north vaguely conceived as Insula Magnetu[m] (Latin for Magnetic Island) off modern day Murmansk. ...

Reference

• This article incorporates text from The Modern World Encyclopædia: Illustrated (1935); out of UK copyright as of 2005.

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