Cape Wolstenholme

Cape Wolstenholme
  • Anaulirvik
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Location of Cape Wolstenholme (4) and Erik Cove (6). Click on image for full legend.
Location of Cape Wolstenholme (4) and Erik Cove (6). Click on image for full legend.
Cape Wolstenholme is located in Quebec
Cape Wolstenholme
Cape Wolstenholme
Location in Quebec
Coordinates: 62°34′50″N 77°30′35″W / 62.58056°N 77.50972°W / 62.58056; -77.50972
LocationNunavik, Quebec, Canada
Topo mapNTS 35K12 Digges Harbour

Cape Wolstenholme (/ˈwoʊstənhoʊm/;[3] French: cap Wolstenholme; Inuktitut: Anaulirvik[4]) is a cape and is the extreme northernmost point of the province of Quebec, Canada.[1][2][5][6] Located on the Hudson Strait, about 28 kilometres (17 mi) north-east of Quebec's northernmost settlement of Ivujivik, it is also the northernmost tip of the Ungava Peninsula, which is in turn the northernmost part of the Labrador Peninsula.[2][5]

Its 300 metres (980 ft) high rocky cliffs dominate the surroundings [1] and mark the entrance to the Digges Sound. Here the strong currents from Hudson Bay and the Hudson Strait clash, sometimes even crushing trapped animals between the ice floes.[7]

The cape is the nesting place of one of the world's largest colonies of thick-billed murre.[7]

In the early 2010s, a 1,263 square kilometres (488 sq mi) area alongside the Hudson Strait and including the cape itself was a national park reserve, called Cap-Wolstenholme National Park, with the intention of becoming a full national park of Quebec.[6] The area was later reduced to 777.5 square kilometres (300.2 sq mi), renamed to Iluiliq National Park Reserve, and no longer includes Cape Wolstenholme.[8]

  1. ^ a b c "Cap Wolstenholme". Banque de noms de lieux du Québec (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. 1986-12-18. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  2. ^ a b c "Cape Wolstenholme". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  3. ^ The Canadian Press (2017), The Canadian Press Stylebook (18th ed.), Toronto: The Canadian Press
  4. ^ Issenman, Betty Kobayashi (1997). Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing. UBC Press. pp. 252–254. ISBN 9780774805964. OCLC 231772119. Also ISBN 9780774805995.
  5. ^ a b "Toporama (on-line map and search)". Atlas of Canada. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2018-09-03.
  6. ^ a b "Parc national du Cap-Wolstenholme project". Ministère du Développement durable, de l'Environnement et des Parcs Québec. Archived from the original on 2011-06-16. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
  7. ^ a b "Ivujivik". Nunavik Tourism Association. Archived from the original on 2015-05-22. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
  8. ^ "Projets de création de parcs nationaux en cours". www.quebec.ca. Gouvernement du Québec. 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.