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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Melville Peninsula

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Notes on the coastal district of the eastern Barren Grounds and Melville Peninsula from Igloolik to Cape Fullerton.

From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper

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 N. D'Anvers

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 Henry Morley

In the northern part of Fox Channel, on the western shore, is Melville Peninsula, where Parry wintered on his second voyage.

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

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