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Boothia Peninsula (formerly Boothia Felix) is a large peninsula in the Canadian Arctic.

It was named by the Scottish explorer John Ross in 1829 after Felix Booth, the patron of Ross' second expedition. Ross encountered there a large Inuit community whom he described as living in "snow cottages" – igloos – and immortalized in the painting North Hendon *.

Peninsulas of Nunavut | Kitikmeot Region | Boothia | Boothia (półwysep)

 

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