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El promontorio Murchison ( 71°58′N 94°57′O / 71.967°N 94.950°O / 71.967; -94.950 ( Promontorio Murchison ) ), un cabo ( promontorio ) en el Ártico canadiense septentrional , [ 1 ] es el punto continental más septentrional de América y de Canadá. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Ubicado a 1087 millas náuticas (1251 mi; 2013 km) del Polo Norte , está 64 km (40 mi) más al norte que Point Barrow , Alaska , el punto más septentrional de todo el territorio estadounidense . [ 4 ]
Geografía
El promontorio de Murchison se extiende a lo largo del borde norte de la península de Boothia , en ángulo recto con el estrecho de Bellot , que lo separa de la isla de Somerset . Situado en la región de Kitikmeot ( en inuktitut : Qitirmiut ) de Nunavut , su punto más septentrional, Zenith Point , se encuentra en 72°00′N 94°39′W / 72.000°N 94.650°W / 72.000; -94.650 ( Zenith Point ) . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] La comunidad más cercana es Taloyoak , aproximadamente a 250 km (160 mi) al sur.
Historia
The area was first explored in April 1852 by the Canadian Captain William Kennedy and the French explorer Joseph René Bellot while searching for traces of John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition.[7][8] The strait was then named after Bellot, who drowned the following year when he fell through the ice in the Wellington Channel.
Irish-born Francis Leopold McClintock also wintered in the area with his ship Fox in the winter of 1858–1859 in his search for the Franklin expedition.[9] In July 1859, McClintock named the promontory, which his expedition determined to be the northernmost point of the mainland, after Royal Geographical Society president Roderick Murchison. Murchison was a prominent supporter of Jane Franklin in her efforts towards a continued search for her husband, which included the sponsorship of McClintock's expedition.[10]
In 1937, Scot E. J. "Scotty" Gall passed the promontory on his ship Aklavik on the first crossing of the Bellot Strait,[11] travelling from the western shore to the eastern for the Hudson's Bay Company.
References
- 12"Murchison Promontory". Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ↑Querying Geographical Names of Canada Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine at Natural Resources Canada
- ↑Murchison PromontoryArchived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine at the Atlas of Canada
- ↑"The Northernmost Points In The United States". worldatlas.com. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ↑"Zenith Point". Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ↑"Somerset Island". Archived from the original on December 23, 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-25. at Oceandots
- ↑Francis Leopold McClintock at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
- ↑The Columbia Gazetteer of North America 2000Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Estrecho de Bellot en la Enciclopedia Canadiense
- ↑ McClintock, Francis (enero de 1881). El destino de Sir John Franklin: El viaje del Fox por los mares árticos en busca de Franklin y sus compañeros . John Murray. pág. 276.
- ↑ Universidad de Calgary, Scotty Gall
Enlaces externos
- Acerca de Murchison Promontory
- Mapa del promontorio de Murchison
- Imagen del promontorio de Murchison
- Penínsulas de la región de Kitikmeot
- Puntos extremos de Canadá