Cape Wolstenholme
cape and northernmost point in Quebec, Canada
Cape Wolstenholme (; French: cap Wolstenholme; Inuktitut: Anaulirvik) is a cape and is the extreme northernmost point of the province of Quebec, Canada. 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.
Its 300 metres (980 ft) high rocky cliffs dominate the surroundings 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.
The cape is the nesting place of one of the world's largest colonies of thick-billed murre.
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. 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.
History
On Henry Hudson's last mission in 1610, he mapped the coast and named the cape "Wolstenholme" to honour Sir John Wolstenholme (1562-1639), an English merchant who sponsored the expedition and was interested in finding the Northwest Passage. Shortly after, mutineers from Hudson's expedition clashed with local Inuit on nearby Digges Islands, the second recorded encounter between Europeans and Inuit. (The first was in 1606 when the expedition of John Knight came under attack on the coast of northern Labrador.
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