Mount Minto (Nunavut)
Mount Minto (previously, Conical Hill) is a mountain located on northern Bell Peninsula, Southampton Island, in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. From eastward, it has a conical shape.
It is named after Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto, first Lord of the Admiralty.
References
- ^ "Mount Minto". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2023-08-18.
- ^ "Narrative of an expedition in H. M. S. Terror, undertaken with a view to geographical discovery on the Arctic shores, in the years 1836-7". Marine Biological Laboratory Library. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
- ^ Royal Geographical Society (1837). "North-Eastern Shore of Southampton Island". Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. 7. J. Murray: 466.