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Boothia Peninsula

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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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The Sanagak Project is located on the Boothia Peninsula, approximately 70 km north of the community of Taloyoak, Nunavut and is comprised of over one million acres of Prospecting Permits.
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also holds the rights to 21 additional prospecting permits north of the Committee Bay project on the Boothia Peninsula and on Baffin Island totaling 1,350,185 acres.
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Boothia Project: The Boothia project comprises 12 permits totaling 821,737 acres and is located on the Boothia Peninsula, 100km west of Kugaaruk (Pelly Bay), Nunavut.
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