Cape Thomas Hubbard is a headland

Headland

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 located in the northern Canadian

Northern Canada

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 territory of Nunavut

Nunavut

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. Projecting into the Arctic Ocean

Arctic Ocean

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, it is situated on the northern tip of Axel Heiberg Island

Axel Heiberg Island

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, 320 mi (515 km) from Etah, Greenland

Etah, Greenland

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History

It was reached by Robert Peary

Robert Peary

Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. was an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole...

 in June 1906, and was the starting point of Donald B. MacMillan

Donald B. MacMillan

Donald Baxter MacMillan was an American explorer, sailor, researcher and lecturer who made over 30 expeditions to the Arctic during his 46-year career...

's search for nonexistent Crocker Land in April 1914.

The cape was named by Peary in honor of General Thomas Hamlin Hubbard

Thomas Hamlin Hubbard

Thomas Hamlin Hubbard was a Union Army colonel from Maine during the Civil War who was awarded the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general, United States Volunteers, for meritorious service...

, president of the Peary Arctic Club in New York, who was one of Peary's financial contributors and a fellow alumni of Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College

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