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.
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"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
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 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
"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
Everything depended upon the six vessels which were steaming towards Boothia Land reaching their goal and accomplishing their mission.
From The World Masters by George Chetwynd Griffith
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