Word: boothia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although she was but 45 years old, Nukashook had about reached the end of her days. In the tiny village of Eelounaling on Boothia Peninsula, one of Canada's northernmost Eskimo settlements, children regarded her as a cross and ugly old hag. The "spitting sickness" (tuberculosis) had long plagued her and her teeth were gone. One day last summer, while she lay coughing in her tepee, Nukashook called to Eeriykoot, her 21-year-old son. "I am suffering too much," she said. "Put up the rope so I may kill myself...
...magnetic pole of the geography books, the U.S.A.F. added, had moved from Canada's bleak Somerset Island, where it had last been reported (TIME, Nov. 4, 1946), over 100 miles to Prince of Wales Island. The two newcomers, both "local poles," turned up on Bathurst Island and Boothia Peninsula; and the whole magnetic field, the U.S.A.F. said, is contained in one big ellipse...
...Ross first located (or thought he located) it in 1832, the pole has been rediscovered periodically, usually in a new spot. As recently as last year crewmen of the Army's Hawaii-to-Egypt polar plane, Pacusan Dreamboat, found it at some distance from its old habitat on Boothia Peninsula...
Ross, who found it on the west coast of the Boothia Peninsula (see map). Roald Amundsen, in 1903-05, found it a little northwest. Until 1933 it shifted westward; then it started east again...
...next flight was to the North Magnetic Pole, believed to be somewhere in the Boothia Peninsula of far northern Canada. They located it 200 to 300 miles north-northwest of where it is now shown on maps...