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

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

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

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

Boothia Peninsula was a barren spot far up in the Arctic Zone on Canada's frozen eastern coast.

From The Secret of the Ninth Planet by Wollheim, Donald Allen