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Melville Peninsula
peninsula, Northwest Territories, Canada
Melville Peninsula, peninsula in Nunavut, on the north coast of Canada. It is 250 miles (400 km) long, 70β135 miles wide, and separates the Gulf of Boothia (west) from the Foxe Basin (east).
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