Lady Franklin Point | |
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  Lady Franklin Point | |
| Coordinates: 68°29′N 113°15′W / 68.483°N 113.250°W[1] | |
| Location | Victoria Island, Nunavut, Canada |
| Offshore water bodies | Coronation Gulf, Dolphin and Union Strait |
Lady Franklin Point is a landform in the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut. It is located on southwestern Victoria Island in the Coronation Gulf by Austin Bay at the eastern entrance of Dolphin and Union Strait.[2]
The point is uninhabited but still had an active North Warning System. Originally part of the Distant Early Warning Line in the Northwest Territories, the site is known as PIN-3.[3] On 10 January 2000, the unmanned site caught fire and was almost totally destroyed.[3]
Named after Jane Griffin, Lady Franklin, it was the historical area of Nagyuktogmiut, a Copper Inuit subgroup.[4]
- ^ "Lady Franklin Point". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
- ^ "Lady Franklin Point". The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. bartleby.com. 2000. Archived from the original on 23 November 2005. Retrieved 3 November 2008.
- ^ a b "PIN-3 Lady Franklin Point, Nunavut". The DEWLine. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
- ^ Stefansson, Vilhjalmur (30 December 1914). "Prehistoric and Present Commerce among the Arctic Coast Eskimo". Geological Survey Museum Bulletin. 6: 14.