Murchison Promontory

Murchison Promontory is a peninsula in northern Canada that is the northernmost point on mainland Canada and on the mainland of North America; at the Atlas of Canada it is also one of the Extreme points of Earth.

The distance to the North Pole is , or closer than the distance from Point Barrow, Alaska (the northernmost point in the United States) to the Pole.

Geography

Murchison Promontory is situated in Nunavut on the northern part of the Boothia Peninsula in the northern Canadian Arctic. The northernmost point on the promontory is Zenith Point

The cape is located on the south side of the, , Bellot Strait which separates it from Somerset Island and roughly about north of the hamlet of Taloyoak.

Murchison Promontory is part of the Kitikmeot Region (Qitirmiut).

History

The area was first explored in April 1852 by Canadian Captain William Kennedy and French explorer Joseph René Bellot while searching for traces of John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography The strait was then named after Bellot.

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. at The Canadian......
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