Meta Incognita Peninsula

Coordinates: 62°45′01″N 068°29′58″W / 62.75028°N 68.49944°W / 62.75028; -68.49944 (Meta Incognita Peninsula)

Kimmirut, Meta Incognita Peninsula, 2006

The Meta Incognita Peninsula is located on southern Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It's bounded by Hudson Strait to the west, and Frobisher Bay to the east. The hamlet of Kimmirut is on the peninsula's northwestern coast.

On his second voyage in July, 1577, Martin Frobisher claimed this area in the name of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The Queen named it Meta Incognita, Latin for "the unknown limits."^[1] Frobisher's 1578 voyage was originally planned to establish a settlement here.

References

↑ McDermott, James (2001). Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan privateer. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 190. ISBN 0-300-08380-7.

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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