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{{Short description|Landform in the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=May 2024}}
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| name         = Lady Franklin Point
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| type         = [[Headland]]
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| map          = Canada Nunavut
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| location     = [[Victoria Island]], [[Nunavut]], Canada
| water_bodies = [[Coronation Gulf]], [[Dolphin and Union Strait]]
| coordinates  = {{coord|68|29|N|113|15|W|region:CA-NU_scale:100000|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OAJMJ|Lady Franklin Point|access-date=20 May 2024}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Lady Franklin Point}}
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'''Lady Franklin Point''' is a landform in the [[Northern Canada|Canadian Arctic]] territory of [[Nunavut]]. It is located on southwestern [[Victoria Island]] in the [[Coronation Gulf]] by [[Austin Bay (Nunavut)|Austin Bay]] at the eastern entrance of [[Dolphin and Union Strait]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bartleby.com/69/33/L00733.html|title=Lady Franklin Point|date=2000|work=The Columbia Gazetteer of North America|publisher=bartleby.com|access-date=3 November 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051123163819/http://www5.bartleby.com/69/33/L00733.html|archive-date=23 November 2005}}</ref>

The point is uninhabited but still had an active [[North Warning System]]. Originally part of the [[Distant Early Warning Line]] in the [[Northwest Territories]], the site is known as PIN-3.<ref name="PIN-3">{{cite web |title=PIN-3 Lady Franklin Point, Nunavut |url=https://lswilson.dewlineadventures.com/pin3/ |access-date=21 May 2024 |website=The DEWLine |language=en-CA}}</ref> On 10 January 2000, the unmanned site caught fire and was almost totally destroyed.<ref name=PIN-3/>

Named after [[Jane Griffin (Lady Franklin)|Jane Griffin, Lady Franklin]], it was the historical area of [[Nagyuktogmiut]], a [[Copper Inuit]] subgroup.<ref name="prehistoric">{{cite journal|last1=Stefansson |first1=Vilhjalmur |authorlink=Vilhjalmur Stefansson |date=30 December 1914|title=Prehistoric and Present Commerce among the Arctic Coast Eskimo|journal=Geological Survey Museum Bulletin|volume=6|pages=14|url=https://archive.org/stream/prehistoricprese00stefiala/prehistoricprese00stefiala_djvu.txt}}</ref>

==Climate==
{{Lady Franklin Point weatherbox}}

==References==
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{{Headlands of Nunavut}}
{{Peninsulas of Nunavut}}
{{Subdivisions of Nunavut}}

[[Category:Peninsulas of Kitikmeot Region]]
[[Category:Headlands of Kitikmeot Region]]
[[Category:Victoria Island (Canada)]]
[[Category:Former populated places in the Kitikmeot Region]]