Banks Peninsula (Nunavut)

Banks Peninsula

Location in Nunavut

The Banks Peninsula (sometimes Banks' Peninsula) is located on the mainland of Canada's Nunavut territory. There are no communities on the peninsula, though the hamlet of Bathurst Inlet is located close-by, to the south, across the waterway of Bathurst Inlet. The peninsula has an irregular coastline, including a portion bounded by Arctic Sound. Point Wollaston is the northern most geographic feature.

The peninsula is one of many landforms named in honour of Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society.^[1]

References

↑ Franklin, John (2004-09-24). "The Journey to the Polar Sea". Bright, Mynors (trans.). Project Gutenberg. pp. August 1. Retrieved 2008-10-14.

External links

Photo, 1930, Inuit woman wearing caribou skin parka, Banks Peninsula

Coordinates: 67°15′N 108°30′W / 67.250°N 108.500°W / 67.250; -108.500 (Banks Peninsula)

Peninsulas of Nunavut

Kitikmeot Region	Adelaide Banks Bexley Boothia Collinson Kent Klutschak Lady Franklin Murchison Rymer Simpson Wollaston

Kivalliq Region	Back Bell Fullerton Native Pembroke Pork

Qikiqtaaluk Region	Aston Bache Baird Barrow Becher Beekman Bjorne Blue Man Blunt Borden Brodeur Cairo Cambridge Christian Colin Archer Cook Cumberland Darling Eglinton Fosheim Foxe Graham Moore Grinnell Hall Hay Heim Henry Kater Hewitt Johan Kleybolte Knud Levvel Liddon Lindstrom Ludwig Maundy Thursday Melville Meta Incognita Raanes Raper Sabine Searle Siorarsuk Skrugar Southwest Stallworthy Svendsen Sverre Thomas Hubbard Vera

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