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Boothia Peninsula| Northernmost part of mainland North America, in the Kitikmeot Region, located in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, extending 275 km/170 mi north into the Arctic Ocean from the area of Spence Bay, between the Gulf of Boothia and Larsen Sound; population (2006) 800. It is settled only in the south, at Taloyoak and is an Inuit community. |
| The area was discovered in 1829 by the Scottish explorer John Ross, and was at that time the estimated location of the North Magnetic Pole. |
| Somerset Island, the northeast corner of which contains the Prince Leopold Migratory Bird Sanctuary (1991), is situated to the north of the peninsula. |
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