Boothia Peninsula
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Boothia Peninsula (formerly Boothia Felix) is a large peninsula in the Canadian Arctic, south of Somerset Island. It is the northernmost point of mainland Canada, and thus, the northernmost point of mainland North America. It includes Cape Murchison.
The peninsula was named by the Scottish explorer John Ross in 1829 after Felix Booth, the patron of Ross' second expedition. Ross encountered a large Inuit community whom he described as living in "snow cottages" – igloos – and immortalized in the painting North Hendon [1].
The north magnetic pole was at one point located here by Ross.
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- This article incorporates text from The Modern World Encyclopædia: Illustrated (1935); out of UK copyright as of 2005.
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