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Coordinates: 69°5928N 67°1749W / 69.991°N 67.297°W / 69.991; -67.297 (Cape Aston)
 

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Cape Aston (Inuktitut: Niaqonaujang)[1] is a large peninsula on eastern Baffin Island, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. Located on Baffin Bay just south of Clyde Inlet,[2] the closest settlement is Clyde River. The cape includes an ice-derived delta.[3]

Cape Aston has the smallest distance to Greenland in the Baffin Bay, some 340 km, and is most likely the first location on the North American Continent, sighted by a European, namely Norse Leiv Eirikson in about year 1003.

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  1. ^ United States. American Ethnology Bureau (1888). Annual reports (Now in the public domain. ed.). pp. 417–. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
  • ^ Ingstad, Anne Stine; Ingstad, Helge (1985). The Norse Discovery of America: The historical background and the evidence of the Norse settlement discovered in Newfoundland. Norwegian University Press. p. 257. ISBN 978-82-00-07039-9. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
  • ^ Andrews, John T. (1970). A geomorphological study of post-glacial uplift: with particular reference to Arctic Canada. Institute of British Geographers. p. 18. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
  • 69°59′28N 67°17′49W / 69.991°N 67.297°W / 69.991; -67.297 (Cape Aston)


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