| Frobisher Bay | |
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 Frobisher Bay fromIqaluit, June 2015 | |
 Frobisher Bay and environs | |
  Frobisher Bay | |
| Location | Nunavut |
| Coordinates | 62°50′N66°35′W / 62.833°N 66.583°W /62.833; -66.583 (Frobisher Bay)[1] |
| River sources | Sylvia Grinnell River |
| Ocean/sea sources | Davis Strait |
| Basin countries | Canada |
| Max. length | 230 km (140 mi) |
| Max. width | 40 km (25 mi) |
| Settlements | Iqaluit |
Frobisher Bay is an inlet of theDavis Strait in theQikiqtaaluk Region ofNunavut, Canada. It is located in the southeastern corner ofBaffin Island. Its length is about 230 km (140 mi) and its width varies from about 40 km (25 mi) at its outlet into the Davis Strait to roughly 20 km (12 mi) towards its inner end.[2]
The capital of Nunavut,Iqaluit, known as Frobisher Bay from 1942 to 1987, lies near the innermost end of the bay.
Frobisher Bay has a tapered shape formed by two flankingpeninsulas, theHall Peninsula to the northeast, and theMeta Incognita Peninsula to the southwest. The Bay's funnel like shape ensures that thetidal variance at Iqaluit each day is about 7 to 11 m (23 to 36 ft). This shape is due to the largeoutlet glacier centred overFoxe Basin during theQuaternary glaciation (Pleistocene), which gouged the Bay's basin, now flooded by the sea.[3]
Within Frobisher Bay itself are a number of bays, inlets andsounds. 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 highcliffs on both shores, rising to roughly 330 m (1,080 ft) on the northeast shore, and twice that on the southwest shore as a result of the tilting of theEarth's crust locally during the earlyTertiary.[3]
Frobisher Bay is also studded withislands. These includeHill Island andFaris Island near Iqaluit,Pugh,Pike,Fletcher andBruce islands at the mouth of Wayne Bay,Augustus Island in Ward Inlet, andChase,McLean,Gabriel andNouyarn islands towards the Bay's mouth.
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Frobisher Bay is named for the English navigator SirMartin Frobisher, who, during his search for theNorthwest Passage in 1576, became the firstEuropean to visit it. UntilHall's voyage in 1861,[4] the Bay was thought by Europeans to be astrait separatingBaffin Island from another island.
The firstChurch of England service recorded on North American soil was a celebration ofHoly Communion at Frobisher Bay in the last days of August or early September 1578. TheAnglican Church of Canada'sPrayer Book fixes the day of commemoration as September 3. The chaplain on Frobisher's voyage was " 'Maister Wolfall (probablyRobert Wolfall), minister and preacher', who had been charged byQueen Elizabeth 'to serve God twice a day'."[5]
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