Cape Farrar (French: Cap d'Farrar) is a cape located along the Boothia Peninsula of the Kitikmeot Region near Taloyoak in the Canadian province of Nunavut, approximately 2,900 km (1,800 mi) northwest of Ottawa.[2][3]
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| Coordinates: 69°19′15″N 94°16′00″W / 69.32083°N 94.26667°W[1] | |
| Location | Nunavut, Canada |
Geography
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James Ross Strait and the St. Roch Basin separate the cape and Boothia Peninsula from King William Island to the west. The community of Taloyoak lies about 38 km (24 mi) northeast of the cape.
Name
editCape Farrar is named after Sergeant Frederick Sleigh Farrar of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Farrar was born at 37 Gresford Avenue, Liverpool, England in 1901, and was a cadet in the Royal Navy when he emigrated to Canada in 1929 and joined the RCMP in that same year. Farrar spent more than ten years on the schooner RCMPV St. Roch.[4] He was among the first to circumnavigate the North American continent, having gone through the Northwest Passage with Inspector Henry Larsen, serving as skipper.[5] Farrar authored a book entailing his journeys entitled Arctic Assignment: The Story of the St. Roch which was published shortly after his death in 1955.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Cape Farrar". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved May 20, 2024.
- ^ "Cape Farrar". Natural Resources of Canada. September 28, 2019.
- ^ "Cape Farrar". GeoNames. September 28, 2019.
- ^ J. Lewis Robinson (1994). "Conquest of the Northwest Passage by R.C.M.P. Schooner St. Roch" (PDF). Canadian Geographic.
- ^ Frederick Sleigh Farrar (1974). Arctic Assignment: The Story of the St. Roch. Macmillan of Canada. ISBN 9780770510565.
- ^ William Joseph Hulgaard, John Wesley White (2002). Honoured in Places: Remembered Mounties Across Canada. Heritage House Publishing Co. ISBN 9781894384391.