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Cape Wolstenholme (Inuit: ''Anaulirvik'')〔Issenman, Betty. ''Sinews of Survival: The living legacy of Inuit clothing''. UBC Press, 1997. pp252-254〕 is the extreme northernmost point of the Canadian province of Quebec.〔 Located on the Hudson Strait, about north-east of Quebec's northernmost settlement of Ivujivik, it is also the northernmost tip of the Ungava Peninsula, which is in turn the northernmost part of the Labrador Peninsula. Its high rocky cliffs dominate the surroundings 〔 and mark the entrance to the Digges Sound. Here the strong currents from Hudson Bay and the Hudson Strait clash, sometimes even crushing trapped animals between the ice floes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ivujivik )〕 The cape is the nesting place of one of the world's largest colonies of thick-billed murre.〔 A area alongside the Hudson Strait and including the cape itself is being considered for becoming a park. It currently is a national park reserve, which is a temporary status until the territory obtains legal status.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Parc national du Cap-Wolstenholme project )〕 ==History== On Henry Hudson's last mission in 1610, he mapped the coast and named the cape "Wolstenholme" to honour Sir John Wolstenholme (1562-1639), an English merchant who sponsored the expedition and was interested in finding the Northwest Passage.〔 Shortly after, mutineers from Hudson's expedition clashed with local Inuit on nearby Digges Islands, the second recorded encounter between Europeans and Inuit. (The first was in 1606 when the expedition of John Knight came under attack on the coast of northern Labrador. Knight and three others from the crew of the ''Hopedale'' disappeared after going ashore in a boat. The remaining eight crew members waited for Knight and his party, but the following day came under attack by a large number of hostile natives. They managed to drive off the natives and eventually found their way to the safety of open water off the coast.)〔Miller, Francis Trevelyan (1930), ''The World's Great Adventure, 1000 Years of Polar Exploration'', Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company P.108-111.〕 In 1697, Captain Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and his crew, in search of commercial opportunities in Hudson Bay, conducted the first commercial trades with Inuit at Cape Wolstenholme.〔 In 1909, the Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post called Wolstenholme in Erik Cove (), a small bay just east of the cape. Its first factor was Ralph Parsons who was to develop the Arctic fox fur trade by establishing new relationships with the Inuit, who already hunted the fox. No Inuit visited or traded at the post for 2 years but eventually it turned profitable 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HBC Heritage - Our History: People )〕 and operated until 1947. Remnants of the post can still be found here.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cape Wolstenholme」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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