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

"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

The North Magnetic Pole is a point on the Boothia Peninsula of Canada's Northwest Territories, close to where the 96th-meridian of west longitude crosses the 71st parallel of north latitude.

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

Now, in 1853, he was in command of a Hudson Bay Company's party to complete the exploration of Boothia Peninsula.

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