Fosheim Peninsula

The Fosheim Peninsula is located in western Ellesmere Island, a part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Eureka, a permanent research community, is located on the north side of Slidre Fiord, a few kilometers east of Eureka Sound. While the peninsula was first sighted by the Arctic explorer Adolphus Greely in 1881, it was not explored until 1899 by Otto Sverdrup, who named it after Ivar Fosheim, a member of his expedition.^[1]

References

↑ "Fosheim Peninsula". thecanadianencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2008-10-17.

Coordinates: 79°40′N 083°45′W / 79.667°N 83.750°W / 79.667; -83.750 (Fosheim 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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