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Cape Wolstenholme
Cape and northernmost point in Quebec, Canada
Cape Wolstenholme (/ˈwoʊstənhoʊm/;[1] French: cap Wolstenholme; Inuktitut: Anaulirvik[2]) is a cape and is the extreme northernmost point of the province of Quebec, Canada.[3][4][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.[4][5]
Its 300 metres (980 ft) high rocky cliffs dominate the surroundings [3] 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]