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Frobisher Bay


Frobisher Bay

An arm of the Atlantic Ocean extending into southeast Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada.

Frobisher Bay

(ˈfrəʊbɪʃə) n1. (Placename) an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island2. (Placename) the former name of Iqaluit

Fro′bisher Bay′


n. an arm of the Atlantic Ocean extending NW into SE Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, Canada.

Frobisher Bay


Frobisher Bay,

arm of the Atlantic Ocean, 150 mi (240 km) long and from 20 to 40 mi (32–64 km) wide, Nunavut Territory, Canada. Cutting deeply into SE Baffin Island, it has steep, deeply indented shores and numerous islets. On its southwest side the Grinnell and Southeast icecaps rise to c.3,000 ft (910 m), extending tongues into the bay. At its head is IqaluitIqaluit
, town (1996 pop. 4,220), Nunavut Territory, Canada, at the NE head of Frobisher Bay on S Baffin Island. Capital of Nunavut since the territory's creation in 1999, it is a communications and transportation center for the eastern Arctic.
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, the capital of Nunavut. The bay was explored (1576) by Sir Martin FrobisherFrobisher, Sir Martin
, 1535?–1594, English mariner. He went to sea as a boy, and spent much of his youth in the African trade. He later gained the friendship of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, through whom he became interested in the Northwest Passage.
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; until 1860 it was believed to be a strait separating Baffin Island from another island.

Frobisher Bay

1. an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island 2. the former name of Iqaluit
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