The Fosheim Peninsula is located in western

Ellesmere Island Ellesmere Island ( iu, script=Latn, Umingmak Nuna, lit=land of muskoxen; french: île d'Ellesmere) is Canada's northernmost and List of Canadian islands by area, third largest island, and the List of islands by area, tenth largest in the world. ...

, a part of the

Qikiqtaaluk Region The Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtani Region (Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ ) or Baffin Region is the easternmost, northernmost, and southernmost administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. Qikiqtaaluk is the traditional Inuktitut name f ...

of the

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. Eureka, a permanent research community, is located on the north side of Slidre Fiord, a few kilometers east of

Eureka Sound Eureka Sound is a high Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It separates Axel Heiberg Island from Ellesmere Island Ellesmere Island ( iu, script=Latn, Umingmak Nuna, lit=land of muskoxen; french: île d'Ellesmere) is Canada's nort ...

. While the peninsula was first sighted by the

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Adolphus Greely in 1881, it was not explored until 1899 by Otto Sverdrup, who named it after Ivar Fosheim, a member of his expedition. On December 24, 2013, ''

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'' reported that ancient

Camel A camel (from: la, camelus and grc-gre, κάμηλος (''kamēlos'') from Hebrew or Phoenician: גָמָל ''gāmāl''.) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus ''Camelus'' that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. C ...

fossils had been found in a petrified forest of paleontological significance, on the peninsula. Canada Coal had been considering proposing exploitation of coal reserves in the region, and said it would take the fossil riches into account in a revised proposal.

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Ellesmere Island Peninsulas of Qikiqtaaluk Region {{QikiqtaalukNU-geo-stub