Boothia Peninsula

Bellot Strait (Ikirahaq) separates the peninsula from Somerset Island to the north.

Genera include Teridontus, Cordylodus, Rossodus, Variabiloconus, Semiacontiodus, Drepanoistodus, Parapanderodus, Ulrichodina, Acodus, Colaptoconus, Polyplacognathus, Pteracontiodus, Milaculum and Phosphannulus.

[2] John Ross was forced by ice to stop for four years at its easternmost point starting in 1829.

[3] In 1831, his nephew James Clark Ross went overland and reached the north magnetic pole which was then on its western side.

Henry Larsen's second successful traverse of the Northwest Passage passed through the Bellot Strait.