Adelaide Peninsula

Adelaide Peninsula

Adelaide Peninsula ("Iluilik") [cite web |url=http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:7q7r-XhkrukJ:assets.panda.org/downloads/final_1_report_envirochange_polar_bears_and_adaptation.pdf+%22chantrey+inlet%22+%22king+william+island%22+map&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=12&gl=us |title=Environmental Change, Polar Bears and Adaptation in the East Kitikmeot: An Initial Assessment Final Report |author=Darren Keith, Jerry Arqviq |date=2006-11-23 |publisher=Kitikmeot Heritage Society |accessdate=2008-01-23] , ancestral home to the "Illuilirmiut" Inuits, [cite web |url=http://www.kitikmeotheritage.ca/Angulalk/FurTrader.pdf |title=Sherman Inlet Post |publisher=Kitikmeotheritage.ca |accessdate=2008-01-11] is a large peninsula in Nunavut, Canada. It is located at coord|68.0833333|N|97.8333333|W| south of King William Island.

Starvation Cove, on the northern tip of the peninsula, was the southermost point that the doomed survivors of the 1845-48 John Franklin expedition reached on their march south to find help.

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