Kent Peninsula

Kent Peninsula

The Kent Peninsula is a large peninsula in Nunavut's northern Canadian Arctic. From a narrow isthmus, it extends convert|105|mi|km into the Coronation Gulf. It is south of Dease Strait and northwest of Queen Maud Gulf. The peninsula is convert|7|mi|kmconvert|29|mi|km wide. [cite web |url=http://www.bartleby.com/69/33/K03133.html |title=Kent Peninsula |accessdate=2008-08-25 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date=2000 |work= |publisher= The Columbia Gazetteer of North America]

Historically, the Umingmuktogmiut Copper Inuit had a permanent community at Umingmuktog on the peninsula's western coast. [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-NhBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=%22Prince+Albert+Sound%22&source=web&ots=P6Beu2wRa-&sig=3aBgqcaIUflYJwZp4-8ySVYkKTY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result |pages=p. 28 |title=The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum: Preliminary Ethnological Report |last=Stefansson |first=Vilhjalmur |year=1914 |publisher=The Trustees of the American Museum |location=New York |oclc=13626409]

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