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{{Short description|Peninsula in Nunavut, Canada}}
{{Location map
| Canada Nunavut
| caption = Location in Nunavut
| label = Adelaide Peninsula
| lat_deg = 68
| lat_min = 06
| lat_dir = N
| lon_deg = 097
| lon_min = 48
| lon_dir = W}}
'''Adelaide Peninsula''' (''Iluilik''),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://assets.panda.org/downloads/final_1_report_envirochange_polar_bears_and_adaptation.pdf |title=Environmental Change, Polar Bears and Adaptation in the East Kitikmeot: An Initial Assessment Final Report |author=Darren Keith, Jerry Arqviq |date=2006-11-23 |publisher=Kitikmeot Heritage Society |access-date=2008-01-23 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326020606/http://assets.panda.org/downloads/final_1_report_envirochange_polar_bears_and_adaptation.pdf |archive-date=2009-03-26 }}</ref> ancestral home to the ''Illuilirmiut'' [[Inuit]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kitikmeotheritage.ca/Angulalk/FurTrader.pdf|title=Sherman Inlet Post|publisher=Kitikmeotheritage.ca|access-date=2008-01-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922233935/http://www.kitikmeotheritage.ca/Angulalk/FurTrader.pdf|archive-date=2007-09-22|url-status=dead}}</ref> is a large peninsula in [[Nunavut]], [[Canada]]. It is located at {{coord|68|06|N|097|48|W|region:CA-NU_scale:1000000|display=inline,title|name=Adelaide Peninsula}} south of [[King William Island]]. Its namesake is [[Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen|Queen Adelaide]], consort of [[William IV of the United Kingdom|King William IV of the United Kingdom]].

In 1839 it was reached from the west by [[Peter Warren Dease]] and [[Thomas Simpson (explorer)|Thomas Simpson]]. Starvation Cove, on the northern tip of the peninsula, was the southernmost point any of the doomed survivors from [[Franklin's lost expedition]] of 1845-48 are known to have reached on their march south to find help.

==See also==
* [[Royal eponyms in Canada]]

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[[Category:Peninsulas of Kitikmeot Region]]


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