The Judge Daly Promontory is a peninsula located on the eastern coast of Ellesmere Island, a part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It stretches from the southwest northeastward into Nares Strait. Lady Franklin Bay is to the north, Archer Fiord to the west, and Cape Baird is its northernmost point.[1]
This geographic feature was named after Judge Charles P. Daly, president of the American Geographical Society and founding member of the Peary Arctic Club.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Judge Daly Promontory". Mapcarta. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Julian Dowdeswell & Michael Hambrey. Islands of the Arctic, 2002. p. 247
External links
edit- Simplified geological map of the Judge Daly Promontory and northern Nares Strait region with Paleogene outliers (after Okulitch 1991; Saalmann et al. 2005; Piepjohn et al. 2007)81°15′N 66°59′W / 81.250°N 66.983°W
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