Murchison Promontory
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Murchison Promontory (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".), a cape (promontory) in the northern Canadian Arctic,[1] is the northernmost mainland point of the Americas and of Canada.[2][3] Located Script error: No such module "convert". from the North Pole, it is Script error: No such module "convert". farther north than Point Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost point of all U.S. territory.[4]
Geography
Murchison Promontory extends along the northern edge of the Boothia Peninsula, at right angles to the Bellot Strait, which separates it from Somerset Island. Situated in the Kitikmeot Region (Inuktitut: Qitirmiut) of Nunavut, its northernmost point, Zenith Point, is located at Script error: No such module "Coordinates"..[5][6] The nearest community is Taloyoak, approximately Script error: No such module "convert". to the south.
History
The area was first explored in April 1852 by the Canadian Captain William Kennedy and the French explorer Joseph René Bellot while searching for traces of John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition.[7][8] The strait was then named after Bellot, who drowned the following year when he fell through the ice in the Wellington Channel.
Irish-born Francis Leopold McClintock also wintered in the area with his ship Fox in the winter of 1858–1859 in his search for the Franklin expedition.[9] In July 1859, McClintock named the promontory, which his expedition determined to be the northernmost point of the mainland, after Royal Geographical Society president Roderick Murchison. Murchison was a prominent supporter of Jane Franklin in her efforts towards a continued search for her husband, which included the sponsorship of McClintock's expedition.[10]
In 1937, Scot E. J. "Scotty" Gall passed the promontory on his ship Aklavik on the first crossing of the Bellot Strait,[11] travelling from the western shore to the eastern for the Hudson's Bay Company.
References
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- ↑ Querying Geographical Names of Canada Template:Webarchive at Natural Resources Canada
- ↑ Murchison Promontory Template:Webarchive at the Atlas of Canada
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". at Oceandots
- ↑ Francis Leopold McClintock at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
- ↑ The Columbia Gazetteer of North America 2000 Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Bellot Strait at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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- ↑ University of Calgary, Scotty Gall
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