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Boothia Peninsula

peninsula in Nunavut, Canada: its N tip is the northernmost point of the North American mainland

Etymology: after Sir Felix Booth (1775-1850), London distiller & promoter of Arctic expeditions

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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