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Mount Minto (Nunavut)

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Mountain in Nunavut, Canada
Mount Minto
Mount Minto is located in NunavutMount MintoMount MintoBell Peninsula, Southampton Island, Nunavut, Canada
Highest point
Elevation213 m (699 ft)
ListingMountains of Nunavut
Coordinates63°56′N 80°57′W / 63.933°N 80.950°W / 63.933; -80.950 (Mount Minto)
Geography
LocationBell Peninsula, Southampton Island, Nunavut, Canada
Topo mapNTC 45P15 Gorden Bay

Mount Minto (previously, Conical Hill) is a mountain located on northern Bell Peninsula, Southampton Island, in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. From eastward, it has a conical shape.

It is named after Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto, first Lord of the Admiralty.

References

  1. ^ "Mount Minto". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
  2. ^ "Narrative of an expedition in H. M. S. Terror, undertaken with a view to geographical discovery on the Arctic shores, in the years 1836-7". Marine Biological Laboratory Library. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
  3. Royal Geographical Society (1837). "North-Eastern Shore of Southampton Island". Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. 7. J. Murray: 466.
Mountains of Nunavut
Kitikmeot Region
Kivalliq Region
Qikiqtaaluk Region
Arctic Cordillera
British Empire Range
United States Range
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