Zenith Point
Coordinates: 72 ° 0 ′ 7 ″ N , 94 ° 37 ′ 20 ″ W.
Zenith Point is a cape at the northern end of the Boothia Peninsula in Nunavut , Canada and the northernmost point on the American mainland.
The cape is located in the north of the Murchison Promontory , a peninsula north of Boothia, on the narrow, 33 km long Bellot Strait in the Kitikmeot region . This separates the mainland from Somerset Island , which is only 1.3 km north and could be mistaken for an extension of the peninsula on satellite images. On Bellot Street, 14 km east of Zenith Point, is the former Fort Ross trading post , the last one founded by the Hudson's Bay Company ; it operated from 1937 to 1948 and was the only settlement on Somerset Island. The former warehouse has been restored and is used by travelers, scientists and Inuit caribou hunters. The nearest inhabited village is Taloyoak in the south of Boothia, 277 km away.
Bellotstrasse was discovered in 1852 by William Kennedy and Joseph-René Bellot while searching for the missing Franklin expedition . It was first passed through in 1937 by the Scotsman EJ "Scotty" Gall with the ship Aklavik , on behalf of the Hudson Bay Company from west to east. The Zenith Point was circumnavigated for the first time.
Zenith Point is 8 miles from the east and 12 miles from the west end of Bellot Street. It is located in the northwest corner of a small, about 200 m long and almost rectangular peninsula, about 20 m further north than a point 3.3 km to the east. The land is rocky and hardly overgrown because of the high geographical latitude. It is full of lakes; one about one square kilometer is less than two kilometers from the cape. 16 km south there is a 25 km long inlet of Franklin Strait , the Kangilukutaak Inlet , which is separated from the Gulf of Boothia by only 720 m of land . As the northernmost mainland point in North America and the entire double continent of America , Zenith Point is almost exactly 2000 kilometers south of the North Pole and 68 km further north than Point Barrow , the northernmost point of Alaska.
See also
- Cape Froward (southern tip of America)
- Cape Prince of Wales (western tip of America)
- Ponta do Seixas (eastern tip of America)
Individual evidence
- ↑ All route information comes from Google Maps .
- ^ Bellot Strait , The Columbia Gazetteer of North America, 2000; bartleby.com (archived)
- ^ EJ (Scotty) Gall , Arctic Profile
- ↑ Zenith Point , mapcarta
- ^ Zenith Point - Northernmost Point of Continental America and Canada , mostpoint.com