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

Dr. Richardson states that 'Knots were observed breeding on Melville Peninsula by Captain Lyon, who tells us that they lay four eggs on a tuft of withered grass, without being at the pains of forming any nest.'

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

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

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Unable to obtain Esquimau assistance the following year, Hall made journeys here and there wherever it was possible; one, in February, 1867, to Igloolik, the winter-quarters of Parry in 1822, on Boothia Felix Land, and a second, in 1868, to the Strait of Fury and Hekla, discovered by Parry in 1825; furthermore, he surveyed the northwest coast of Melville Peninsula, and filled in the broken line of the Admiralty chart for the northwest of that peninsula.

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

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