Boothia Peninsula

British  

/ ˈbuːθɪə /

noun

1. a peninsula of N Canada: the northernmost part of the mainland of North America, lying west of the Gulf of Boothia , an arm of the Arctic Ocean

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Example Sentences

"They told me, too, they had found skulls and bones of white men washed up along the coast from Prince of Wales Island right down to Boothia Peninsula."

From Time Magazine Archive

The next flight was to the North Magnetic Pole, believed to be somewhere in the Boothia Peninsula of far northern Canada.

From Time Magazine Archive

This lies at the extreme northerly point of North America's mainland, 2,000 miles directly above Minneapolis, and separates Boothia Peninsula from Somerset Island.

From Time Magazine Archive

"True North" is the direction in which one points to the North Pole, but compass needles point in the direction of the magnetic pole, which is on the Boothia Peninsula in Northern Canada.

From Time Magazine Archive

While Franklin and his men were facing disaster and death in their ice-bound ships to the west of Boothia Felix Land, that distinguished arctic traveller, John Rae, was exploring Boothia Peninsula.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.