In 1836 Back was instructed to sail to the northwest corner of Hudson Bay, then travel overland from there to the Gulf of
Boothia (Back, 1838:1, 6-15).
The portion of the route over northern Canada and the
Boothia Peninsula is the most difficult because of icing issues, so further studies are continuing in those areas, Pfeffer says.
In 1937, he engaged the support of the New England Museum of Natural History and went north to Ellesmere and Baffin islands and the
Boothia Peninsula.
In 1854, John Rae, a Scotsman, doctor, and Canadian immigrant endowed with incredible endurance, physical stamina, and empathy for native culture rare in Victorian days, led a party of explorers across the
Boothia Peninsula to map the missing link in the Northwest Passage.
Over the next 10 hours we landed in Gjoa Haven on King William Island, Pelly Bay, and finally Taloyoak on the
Boothia Peninsula, where I talked with many locals about polar bears, Arctic char, and endless winters.
Concentrations of seismicity near Baffin Island and across the
Boothia and Ungava peninsulas may be caused by postglacial rebound (Adams and Basham 1991).
In her introduction, Eber notes that a disproportionate number understandably pertain to the expeditions that had the most interaction with Inuit: William Edward Parry's second voyage 1821-23 (to Igloolik), John Ross's second voyage 1829-33 (to the area of Thom Bay, halfway down the east coast of
Boothia Peninsula), and Roald Amundsen's successful voyage in a fishing smack through the northwest passage 1903-6 (including his two winters on King William Island at what became the village of Gjoa Haven).
The first explorers to find the north magnetic pole did so at Cape Adelaide, on the west coast of Canada's
Boothia Peninsula, in 1831.
One morning in August 1999, on the west coast of
Boothia Peninsula in the high Arctic, three men prepared to set out from a rough camp to honour the explorer John Rae.
While travelling on the
Boothia Peninsula, an explorer named John Rae met some Inuit.
Led by former marine Dom Mee the seven faced hazards including pack ice and polar bears on their trip across Canada's
Boothia Peninsula, following the route taken in 1829 by Sir John Ross.