The Kent Peninsula is a large peninsula, almost totally surrounded by water, in Nunavut's northern Canadian Arctic mainland. From a narrow isthmus, it extends Vorlage:Convert westward into the Coronation Gulf. It is south of Dease Strait which separates the peninsula from Victoria Island and the Finlayson Islands. It is northwest of Queen Maud Gulf. Melville Sound, Parry Bay, and Elu Inlet lie between the peninsula and the mainland. Cape Flinders is situated on the western point of the peninsula.[1]
The peninsula has many un-named lakes and rivers, and an irregular coastline Vorlage:Convert wide.[2]
Historically, the Umingmuktogmiut subgroup of Copper Inuit had a permanent community at Umingmuktog on the peninsula's western coast.[3]
References
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- ↑ Ken McGoogan: Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot. Basic Books, 2003, ISBN 0-7867-1156-6, S. 139 (google.com).
- ↑ Kent Peninsula. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America, 2000, abgerufen am 25. August 2008.
- ↑ Vilhjalmur Stefansson: The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum: Preliminary Ethnological Report. The Trustees of the American Museum, New York 1914, OCLC 13626409, S. 28 (google.com).