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- ↑ Grandjean, Philippe; "Nova Dania: Entries of Jens Munck at Churchill, Manitoba, 1619-1620", American Birds, Spring 1986, p. 42–44
- ↑ Begg, Alexander; History of the North-West, vol. 1, Toronto: Hunter, Rose & Co., 1894, p. 127
- ↑ Miller Christy (ed.), The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in Search of a North-West Passage, in 1631–32 , vol. 2, London: Hakluyt Society, 1894, p. 485
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