Cape_Pembroke_(Nunavut)
Cape Pembroke (Nunavut)
Headland in Nunavut, Canada
Cape Pembroke is an uninhabited headland at the northeastern tip of Coats Island in northern Hudson Bay within the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada.
Cape Pembroke | |
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| Coordinates: 62°56′N 81°55′W[1] | |
| Location | Coats Island, Nunavut, Canada |
| Offshore water bodies | Hudson Bay |
The habitat is characterized by a small, elevated outcrop of Precambrian gneiss and rocky uplands rising to an elevation of 215 m (705 ft) above sea level.[3] It is 3 km2 (1.2 sq mi) in size.
The cape is a Canadian Important Bird Area (#NU005) and a Key Migratory Bird Habitat Site.
Notable bird species include thick-billed murre, black guillemots, peregrine falcon, glaucous gull,[4] and common eider.[5]
Welsh Royal Navy officer, Sir Thomas Button, in 1612 was the first European to visit the cape.[6]
- "Cape Pembroke". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
- "Cape Pembroke". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
- "Coats Island/Cape Pembroke (NU005)". Retrieved May 21, 2024.
- "Coats Island/Cape Pembroke". bsc-eoc.org. Archived from the original on June 12, 2011. Retrieved May 5, 2009.
- Gaston, Anthony J.; Henri Ouellet (June 1997). "Birds and mammals of Coats Island". Arctic. 50 (2): 3. doi:10.14430/arctic1094.
- Barrow, John (1818). A chronological history of voyages into the Arctic regions: undertaken chiefly for the purpose of discovering a north-east, north-west, or polar passage between the Atlantic and Pacific ... (Digitized June 25, 2007 ed.). London: J. Murray. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-7153-4951-9.
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