1829
Discovery of Boothia Peninsula
John Ross was frozen in for four years at its easternmost point starting in 1829. He named it after his patron Sir Felix Booth
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Boothia Peninsula in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
John Ross was frozen in for four years at its easternmost point starting in 1829. He named it after his patron Sir Felix Booth
Helps locate the position of the North Magnetic Pole on 1 June 1831 on the Boothia Peninsula in the far north of Canada
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