Boothia Peninsula

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Boothia Peninsula is a large, remote landmass in northern Canada’s Nunavut territory, known as the northernmost point of mainland North America and its location within the Arctic Archipelago.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Boothia Peninsula canonical 12
Boothia Peninsula Arctic expeditions 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cape
geographical feature
peninsula
person
strait
adjacentTo King William Island
Melville Peninsula
Somerset Island
borderedBy Committee Bay
Gulf of Boothia
Prince Regent Inlet
characterizedAs remote
sparsely populated
continent North America
country Canada
hasClaimToFame northernmost point of mainland North America
hasDistinction northernmost point of mainland North America
hasHistoricalEvent searches for Northwest Passage
hasHistoricalSignificance Arctic exploration
hasIndigenousInhabitants Inuit
hasNearbyFeature Magnetic North Pole (historical position)
linked to: Magnetic North Pole
hasNearbyWaterBody Bellot Strait
Committee Bay
Gulf of Boothia
Prince Regent Inlet
hasPoint Murchison Promontory
hasWildlife Arctic fox
caribou
migratory birds
polar bear
seals
knownFor sponsoring Arctic exploration
locatedIn Arctic Archipelago
Nunavut
northern Canada
linked to: Northern Canada
locatedInClimateZone Arctic
linked to: Arctic region
locatedOn Boothia Peninsula
namedAfter Felix Booth
occupation distiller
partOf Kitikmeot Region
separatedBy Bellot Strait
separatedFrom Somerset Island
separates Boothia Peninsula
Somerset Island
terrainType rocky
tundra
usedFor traditional Inuit fishing
traditional Inuit hunting
traditional Inuit trapping
vegetationType Arctic tundra

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Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gulf of Boothia borderedBy Boothia Peninsula
James Clark Ross participatedIn Boothia Peninsula Arctic expeditions
linked to: Boothia Peninsula
James Ross Strait separates Boothia Peninsula
James Ross Strait locatedWestOf Boothia Peninsula
Sir John Rae explored Boothia Peninsula
King William Island separatedFrom Boothia Peninsula
John Ross (explorer) ledExpeditionTo Boothia Peninsula
Prince Regent Inlet separates Boothia Peninsula
Prince Regent Inlet hasCoastlineOn Boothia Peninsula
Prince Regent Inlet locatedEastOf Boothia Peninsula
Committee Bay locatedEastOf Boothia Peninsula
Murchison Promontory locatedOn Boothia Peninsula
subject linked to: Boothia Peninsula
Bellot Strait separates Boothia Peninsula
subject linked to: Boothia Peninsula