Grinnell Peninsula

Grinnell Peninsula

Grinnell Peninsula is a peninsula in northwestern Devon Island in Nunavut, Canada. Discovered by the Grinnell Expedition, who named it "Grinnell Land", after the financier of Arctic explorations Henry Grinnell.

ource

* [http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/scripts/minisa.dll/144/proe/proarc/se+arctic,+v.+37,+no.++2,+June+1984,*?COMMANDSEARCH Arctic Institute of North America, Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic, v. 37, no. 2, June 1984, p. 178-179]

External links

* [http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/archives/glacier/higharcticislands/plate2-1?w=4&h=4&l=2&r=0&c=0 The Glacier Atlas of Canada]


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