Boothia
Americannoun
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a peninsula in N Canada: the northernmost part of the mainland of North America; former location of the north magnetic pole.
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Gulf of, a gulf between this peninsula and Baffin Island.
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This lies at the extreme northerly point of North America's mainland, 2,000 miles directly above Minneapolis, and separates Boothia Peninsula from Somerset Island.
From Time Magazine Archive
The North Magnetic Pole is a point on the Boothia Peninsula of Canada's Northwest Territories, close to where the 96th-meridian of west longitude crosses the 71st parallel of north latitude.
From Time Magazine Archive
"True North" is the direction in which one points to the North Pole, but compass needles point in the direction of the magnetic pole, which is on the Boothia Peninsula in Northern Canada.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next flight was to the North Magnetic Pole, believed to be somewhere in the Boothia Peninsula of far northern Canada.
From Time Magazine Archive
Was he going as far back as Victoria Harbor in the Gulf of Boothia, where Sir John Ross wintered in 1833?
From The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Riou, Edouard
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