The Henry Kater Peninsula () is a

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on northern

Baffin Island Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada and the fifth-largest island in the world. Its area is , slightly larger than Spain; its population was 13,039 as of the 2021 Canadia ...

, in

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, Canada. It protrudes in an eastern direction into

Davis Strait Davis Strait is a northern arm of the Atlantic Ocean that lies north of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. To the north is Baffin Bay. The strait was named for the English explorer Jo ...

. It's bounded to the north by Arctic Harbour. Further north lies

Clyde Inlet Kangiqtugaapik (Inuktitut syllabics: ''ᑲᖏᖅᑐᒑᐱᒃ'') formerly Clyde Inlet is a body of water in eastern Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. Its mouth opens into the Davis Strait from the west. The Inuit community of Clyde River ...

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borders the peninsula to the south. It is named after the

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Henry Kater Henry Kater FRS, FRAS (16 April 1777 – 26 April 1835) was a British physicist of German descent. Early life He was born at Bristol. At first he intended to study law; but he gave up the idea on his father's death in 1794. He entered the a ...

Geography

The peninsula is long by - wide. Its highest point rises above

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. At least between 34,000 and 10,000 BP, Henry Kater Peninsula was ice-covered.

Population

There are no permanent communities on Henry Kater Peninsula, though Wenzel noted some

Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...

maintained fixed winter residences in villages on the peninsula up through and during the mid 20th century. English trader and hermit Hector Pitchforth lived on the peninsula, dying of starvation in his home in January 1927.

References

Peninsulas of Baffin Island {{QikiqtaalukNU-geo-stub