Murchison Promontory
Murchison Promontory is a peninsula in northern Canada that is the northernmost point on mainland Canada and on the mainland of North America; it is also one of the Extreme points of Earth.
The distance to the North Pole is 1,087 nautical miles (1,251 mi; 2,013 km), or 64 km (40 mi) closer than the distance from Point Barrow, Alaska (the northernmost point in the United States) to the Pole.
Murchison Promontory is situated in Nunavut on the northern part of the Boothia Peninsula in the northern Canadian Arctic. The northernmost point on the promontory is Zenith Point with coordinates 72°00′00″N 94°38′59″W / 72.00000°N 94.64972°W.
The cape is located on the south side of the, 48 by 3 km (29.8 by 1.9 mi), Bellot Strait which separates it from Somerset Island and roughly about 250 km (160 mi) north of the hamlet of Taloyoak.
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