Cape Columbia
Cape Columbia is the northernmost point of land of Canada, located on Ellesmere Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut. It marks the westernmost coastal point of Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean.Cape Columbia
- Type: Cape
- Description: peninsula in Nunavut, Canada
- Categories: peninsula and landform
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
83.11148° or 83° 6′ 41″ north
Longitude
-69.95952° or 69° 57′ 34″ west
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
C7MG426R+H5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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Satellite Map
Discover Cape Columbia from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Cape Columbia” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Cabu Columbia”
- Azerbaijani: “Kolumbiya burnu”
- Catalan: “cap Columbia”
- Catalan: “Cap Columbia”
- Catalan: “Cap de Columbia”
- Cebuano: “Cape Columbia”
- Danish: “Kap Columbia”
- French: “cap Columbia”
- French: “Cap Columbia”
- German: “Kap Columbia”
- Hebrew: “כף קולומביה”
- Italian: “Capo Columbia”
- Japanese: “コロンビア岬”
- Korean: “컬럼비아 곶”
- Korean: “컬럼비아곶”
- Malayalam: “കേപ് കൊളംബിയ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapp Columbia”
- Polish: “Columbia (Kanada)”
- Polish: “Columbia”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Columbia”
- Romanian: “Capul columbia”
- Romanian: “Capul Columbia”
- Russian: “Колумбия (мыс)”
- Russian: “Колумбия”
- Slovenian: “Cape Columbia”
- Slovenian: “rt Columbia”
- Spanish: “Cabo Columbia”
- Swedish: “Cape Columbia”
- Swiss German: “Kap Columbia”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kap Columbia”
- Ukrainian: “Мис Колумбія”
- Vietnamese: “Mũi Columbia”
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Highlights include Mount Cooper Key and Arthur Laing Peninsula.
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