Melville Peninsula

American  

noun

1. a peninsula in N Canada, SE of the Gulf of Boothia. 250 miles (405 km) long.

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Melville Peninsula British  

noun

1. a peninsula of N Canada, in Nunavut, between the Gulf of Boothia and Foxe Basin

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Example Sentences

An expedition from the University of Pennsylvania found a big village of the shadowy Dorset people on bleak Melville Peninsula.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sailing round Melville Peninsula, we come into the gulf of Akkolee, through Fury and Hecla Straits, discovered by Parry.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

Captain Lyon gives some interesting illustrations of the habits of the wolves of Melville Peninsula, which were sadly destructive to his dogs.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

Whilst the ice barrier on the south-east of Melville Peninsula appeared permanent, that at Regent's Inlet was evidently the reverse.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by D'Anvers, N.

Sailing round Melville Peninsula, we come into the Gulf of Akkolee, through Fury and Hecla Straits, discovered by Parry. 

From Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage by Morley, Henry