Editing Frobisher Bay

{{Short description|Inlet in Nunavut, Canada}}
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{{Infobox body of water
 | name                 = Frobisher Bay
 | image                = Matuto in Iqaluit 03.jpg
 | caption              = Frobisher Bay from [[Iqaluit]], June 2015
 | pushpin_map          = Canada Nunavut
 | image_map            = FrobisherBayOMC.png
 | caption_map          = Frobisher Bay and environs
 | location             = [[Nunavut]]
 | coords               = {{coord|62|50|N|66|35|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:2500000|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OAGBA|Frobisher Bay|date=20 August 2024}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Frobisher Bay}}
 | rivers               = Sylvia Grinnell River
 | oceans               = [[Davis Strait]]
 | countries            = [[Canada]]
 | length               = {{cvt|230|km}}
 | width                = {{cvt|40|km}}
 | area                 = 
 | cities               = [[Iqaluit]]
 | references           = 
}}

'''Frobisher Bay''' is an inlet of the [[Davis Strait]] in the [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]] of [[Nunavut]], Canada. It is located in the southeastern corner of [[Baffin Island]]. Its length is about {{cvt|230|km}} and its width varies from about {{cvt|40|km}} at its outlet into the Davis Strait to roughly {{cvt|20|km}} towards its inner end.<ref name="OHI">{{cite web |url=https://iho.int/uploads/user/pubs/standards/s-23/S-23_Ed3_1953_EN.pdf |title=Limits of oceans and seas |date=1953 |edition=3rd |website=International Hydrographic Organization |access-date=15 February 2023}}</ref>

The capital of Nunavut, [[Iqaluit]], known as Frobisher Bay from 1942 to 1987, lies near the innermost end of the bay.

==Geography==
Frobisher Bay has a tapered shape formed by two flanking [[peninsula]]s, the [[Hall Peninsula]] to the northeast, and the [[Meta Incognita Peninsula]] to the southwest. The Bay's funnel like shape ensures that the [[Tide|tidal]] variance at Iqaluit each day is about {{cvt|7|to|11|m}}. This shape is due to the large [[Glacier morphology#Outlet glaciers|outlet glacier]] centred over [[Foxe Basin]] during the [[Quaternary glaciation]] (Pleistocene), which gouged the Bay's basin, now flooded by the sea.<ref name="CE">[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/frobisher-bay Frobisher Bay] in [[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]</ref>

Within Frobisher Bay itself are a number of bays, inlets and [[sound (geography)|sound]]s. Among these are Wayne Bay and Ward Inlet (up towards the far northwestern end), and also Newell Sound, Leach Bay and Kneeland Bay (along the southwest shore). Hamlen Bay, Newton Fiord, Royer Cove, and Waddell Bay are located along the northeast shore. Frobisher Bay's whole coastline is marked with innumerable narrow inlets into which flow many small streams. There are high [[cliff]]s on both shores, rising to roughly {{cvt|330|m}} on the northeast shore, and twice that on the southwest shore as a result of the tilting of the [[Crust (geology)|Earth's crust]] locally during the early [[Tertiary]].<ref name="CE"/>

Frobisher Bay is also studded with [[island]]s. These include [[Hill Island]] and [[Faris Island]] near Iqaluit, [[Pugh Island|Pugh]], [[Pike Island (Nunavut)|Pike]], [[Fletcher Island (Nunavut)|Fletcher]] and [[Bruce Island (Nunavut)|Bruce]] islands at the mouth of Wayne Bay, [[Augustus Island]] in Ward Inlet, and [[Chase Island|Chase]], [[McLean Island (Nunavut)|McLean]], [[Gabriel Island|Gabriel]] and [[Nouyarn Island|Nouyarn]] islands towards the Bay's mouth.

==History==
[[File:1606 Mercator Hondius Map of the Arctic (First Map of the North Pole) - Geographicus - NorthPole-mercator-1606.jpg|left|thumb|The [[Jodocus Hondius|Hondius]] Map, displaying the Frobisher "Strait" bisecting southern Greenland.]]

Frobisher Bay is named for the English navigator Sir [[Martin Frobisher]], who, during his search for the [[Northwest Passage]] in 1576, became the first [[Europe]]an to visit it. Until [[Charles Francis Hall|Hall]]'s voyage in 1861,<ref>{{Cite Americana|wstitle=Frobisher Bay}}</ref> the Bay was thought by Europeans to be a [[strait]] separating [[Baffin Island]] from another island.

The first [[Church of England]] service recorded on North American soil was a celebration of [[Eucharist|Holy Communion]] at Frobisher Bay in the last days of August or early September 1578. The [[Anglican Church of Canada]]'s [[Book of Common Prayer|Prayer Book]] fixes the day of commemoration as September 3. The chaplain on Frobisher's voyage was " 'Maister Wolfall (probably [[Robert Wolfall]]), minister and preacher', who had been charged by [[Elizabeth I|Queen Elizabeth]] 'to serve God twice a day'."<ref name=carrington>{{cite book |last=Carrington |first=Philip |title=The Anglican Church in Canada |year=1963 |publisher=Collins |location=Toronto}}</ref>
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==References==
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==Further reading==
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* Andrews, John T. ''Cumberland Sound and Frobisher Bay, Southeastern Baffin Island, N.W.T''. Ottawa, Ont: National Research Council of Canada, 1987. {{ISBN|0-660-12477-7}}
* Eggertsson, Olafur, and Dosia Laeyendecker. 1995. "A Dendrochronological Study of the Origin of Driftwood in Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, N.W.T., Canada". ''Arctic and Alpine Research''. 27, no. 2: 180.
* Finkler, Harold W. ''Inuit and the Administration of Criminal Justice in the Northwest Territories The Case of Frobisher Bay''. Ottawa: Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs, 1976. {{ISBN|0-662-00222-9}}
* Grainger, E. H. ''The Food of Ice Fauna and Zooplankton in Frobisher Bay''. Ste-Anne de Bellevue, Que: Arctic Biological Station, Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans, 1985.
* Gullason, Lynda. ''Engendering Interaction Inuit-European Contact in Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island''. Ottawa: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. {{ISBN|0-612-50180-9}}
* Henshaw, Anne Stevens. ''Central Inuit Household Economies Zooarchaeological, Environmental, and Historical Evidence from Outer Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, Canada''. BAR international series, 871. Oxford, England: Archaeopress, 2000. {{ISBN|1-84171-073-3}}
* Mallon, S. T. ''Inuktitut, Frobisher Bay Version''. Yellowknife, N.W.T.: Dept. of Education, 1977.
* Odess, Daniel. ''Interaction, Adaptation, and Culture Change Lithic Exchange in Frobisher Bay Dorset Society, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada''. 1996.
* Roy, Sharat Kumar. ''The Upper Ordovician Fauna of Frobisher Bay, Baffin Land''. 1941.
* Thomson, G. James. ''A Ring of Urgency An Engineering Memoir : from the Halls of Humberside to the Shores of Frobisher Bay''. Scarborough, Ont: Abbeyfield Publishers, 1995. {{ISBN|0-9699536-0-7}}
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