Cape Flinders

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| type = Cape

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| location = Kiillinnguyaq, Nunavut, Canada

| water_bodies = Dease Strait

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Cape Flinders is a headland in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is located on the western point of the Kent Peninsula, now known as Kiillinnguyaq.{{cite book|last=McGoogan|first=Ken|title=Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot|publisher=Basic Books|date=2003|pages=139|isbn=0-7867-1156-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JshAgSEHfpkC&q=%22cape+flinders%22+coronation&pg=PA139}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

The cape was named by Sir John Franklin in 1821{{cite book|last=Murphy|first=David |title=The Arctic Fox: Francis Leopold McClintock|publisher=Dundurn Press Ltd.|date=2004 |pages=25|isbn=1-55002-523-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YshbpPnEfr8C&q=%22cape+flinders%22+canada&pg=PA25}} after the navigator Matthew Flinders.

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