Siorarsuk Peninsula

Siorarsuk Peninsula [cite web |url=http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/canada/map/m809933/siorarsuk_peninsula.html |title=Siorarsuk Peninsula, Canada |accessdate=2008-10-01 |publisher=traveljournals.net] is a finger-shaped peninsula in northern Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It juts into the Foxe Basin north of the Melville Peninsula. Jens Munk Island is convert|2.5|km|mi southeast of it, separated by the South Passage. [cite web |url=http://www.oceandots.com/arctic/canada/jens-munk.htm |title=Jens Munk Island |accessdate=2008-10-01 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=oceandots.com]

Bowhead whaless are known to congregate in the area until western Igloolik is ice-free, at which time they travel to that region. [cite web |url=http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:UBv3z7ccTHkJ:www.nwmb.com/english/resources/Bowheadreport1.pdf+Siorarsuk&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=22&gl=us&client=firefox-a |pages=p. 29 |title=Final Report of the Inuit Bowhead Knowledge Study |accessdate=2008-10-01 |last=Hay |first=Keith |coauthors= |date=March, 2000 |work= |publisher=nwmb.com]

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