Henry Kater Peninsula

Henry Kater Peninsula

The Henry Kater Peninsula (coord|69|23|N|68|3|W)cite web |url=http://www.geonames.org/5973989/henry-kater-peninsula.html |title=Henry Kater Peninsula |accessdate=2008-09-22 |publisher=geonames.org] is a peninsula on northern Baffin Island, in Nunavut, Canada. It protrudes in an eastern direction into Davis Strait. It's bounded to the north by Arctic Harbour. Further north lies Clyde Inlet. Home Bay borders the peninsula to the south.

It is named after the English physicist, Henry Kater.

Geography

The peninsula is convert|89|km|mi long by convert|1|km|mi-convert|37|km|mi wide. [cite web |url=http://www.bartleby.com/69/62/H02762.html |title=Henry Kater, Cape |accessdate=2008-09-22 |date=2000 |work= The Columbia Gazetteer of North America |publisher=bartleby.com] Its highest point rises convert|272|m|ft above sea level. At least between 34,000 and 10,000 BP, Henry Kater Peninsula was ice covered. [cite journal |url=http://instaar.colorado.edu/AAAR/browse_abstracts/abstract.php?id=20 |title=Glacial Geomorphology and Chronology of Henry Kater Peninsula, East Baffin Island, N.W.T. |accessdate=2008-09-22 |last=King |first=Cuchlaine A. M. |journal=Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research |volume=1 |number=3 |pages=pp. 195-212 |date=1969 |work= |publisher=colorado.edu]

Population

There are no permanent communities on Henry Kater Peninsula, though Wenzel noted some Inuit maintained fixed winter residences in villages on the peninsula during the mid 20th century. [cite book |title=Animal Rights, Human Rights: Ecology, Economy and Ideology in the Canadian Arctic |last=Wenzel |first=George W. |year=1991 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Toronto |isbn=0802068901 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=g1l6pF0teV0C&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=%22Henry+Kater+Peninsula%22&source=web&ots=O9ZchH4IXJ&sig=_7H5-AvAM-wOnBVaFTTQYz_7WwI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result |pages=110]

References

External links

* [http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/w.cgi?c=ca&UF=-566145&UN=-799949&DG=PEN Aerial photo, Henry Kater Peninsula]


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