Dunne Foxe Island
Geography | |
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Location | Hudson Bay |
Coordinates | 62°18′N 092°13′W / 62.300°N 92.217°W |
Archipelago | Arctic Archipelago |
Administration | |
Canada | |
Nunavut | Nunavut |
Region | Kivalliq |
Demographics | |
Population | Uninhabited |
Dunne Foxe Island is one of the Canadian arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada within western Hudson Bay. The hamlet of Whale Cove is 25 km (16 mi) to the west.[1]
The island was named on July 30, 1631, by Arctic explorer, Captain Luke Foxe.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dunne Foxe Island, Nunavut, Canada". travelingluck.com. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
- ^ Christy, M.; Foxe, L.; James, T.; Gellibrand, H.; W. W. (1894). The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull, and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in Search of a Northwest Passage, in 1631-32: With Narratives of the Earlier Northwest Voyages of Frobisher, Davis, Weymouth, Hall, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baflin, Hawkridge, Ad Others. London: Hakluyt Society. pp. cix. OCLC 1487462.
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