Cape Christian

{{Short description|Cape in Nunavut, Canada}}

Cape Christian is a land point on eastern Baffin Island, in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. The nearest settlement is Clyde River to the north. Cape Christian was used as a weather station.{{cite news|url=http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/50506/news/nunavut/legislative.html|title=And what about Cape Christian?|date=May 6, 2005|publisher=Nunatsiaq News|accessdate=26 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403022025/http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/50506/news/nunavut/legislative.html|archive-date=3 April 2012|url-status=dead}} From 1954 until 1974, it was also an Arctic military site that was run by the U.S. Coast Guard as a LORAN station which supported ships and aircraft that operated out of Thule Air Base, Greenland.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/toxins-to-be-removed-from-former-arctic-military-site-1.844224|title=Toxins to be removed from former Arctic military site|last=Bell|first=Patricia |date=July 23, 2009|publisher=CBC News|access-date=26 August 2011}}

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{{Peninsulas of Nunavut}}

Category:Peninsulas of Qikiqtaaluk Region

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