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Discovered and named by Captain Cook (1785, p. 460), RN, on August 21, 1778 who wrote "The southern extreme seemed to form a point which was named Cape Lisburne." An early Inuit name for the cape was "Uivaq," generally spelled "Wevuk" or "Wevok." Cape Lisburne was often referred to as "Uivaq Ungasiktoq" meaning "distant cape" as opposed to "Uivaq Qanitoq" (Cape Thompson) meaning "near cape." REFERENCES
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