Boothia
Americannoun
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a peninsula in N Canada: the northernmost part of the mainland of North America; former location of the north magnetic pole.
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Gulf of, a gulf between this peninsula and Baffin Island.
Example Sentences
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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
"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
For thirty-six hours the Forward followed the sinuosities of the coast of Boothia, without reaching Prince of Wales Land.
From The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Riou, Edouard
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