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The 1645 map Regiones Sub Polo Arctico by Joan Blaeu shows the name "C. Worsnam". On the 1743 map Chart of Hudson's Bay & Straits, Baffin's Bay, Davis Strait and Labrador by C. Middelton "C. Walsingham" is shown. "Cape St. Louis" appeared on the map of Canada or New France and the discoveries made by Guillaume Delisle in 1703. [1]
Pages in category "Ice caps of Canada" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ad Astra Ice Cap;
The Flemish Cap is an area of shallow waters in the north Atlantic Ocean centered roughly at 47° north, 45° west or about 563 km (350 miles) east of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The shallow water is caused by a wide underwater plateau covering an extended area of 42,000 km 2 (12,000 square miles).
The Penny Ice Cap, formerly Penny Icecap, [1] is a 6,000 km 2 (2,300 sq mi) ice cap in Auyuittuq National Park of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It forms a 2,000 m (6,562 ft) high barrier on the Cumberland Peninsula, an area of deep fjords and glaciated valleys. It is a remnant of the Laurentide ice sheet.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cape St. George had a population of 809 living in 380 of its 433 total private dwellings, a change of -5.2% from its 2016 population of 853. With a land area of 34.47 km 2 (13.31 sq mi), it had a population density of 23.5/km 2 (60.8/sq mi) in 2021. [1]
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On his 1960 album, Canada's Story in Song, Alan Mills featured a song called "Iron Ore by 'Fifty-Four", in which he sang of the story of the construction of the railroad. [6] In the early 1970s, a country-Western band from Newfoundland called the Newfoundland Showband recorded a song about the railway, sung to the tune of "Wabash Cannonball".
Cape Columbia is the northernmost point of land of Canada, located on Ellesmere Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut. It marks the westernmost coastal point of Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's northernmost point of land outside Greenland. The distance to the North Pole is 769 km (478 mi).