Dunne Foxe Island
62°18′N 092°13′W / 62.300°N 92.217°W / 62.300; -92.217 (Dunne Foxe Island)Archipelago Arctic Archipelago Administration Nunavut Nunavut Region Kivalliq Demographics Population Uninhabited Islands of Chesterfield Inlet Islands of Foxe Basin Islands of Hudson Bay
Canada
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
- ^ "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.
Dunne Foxe island Brooke Cobham.
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Islands of the Kivalliq Region
- Akreavenek
- Apqusiurniq
- Boulder
- Camp Cove
- Centre
- Deer
- Hanbury
- Illusive
- Iripajuk
- Moor
- North Imilit
- North Midway
- Patch
- Pintail
- Ragged
- Reference
- Rockhouse
- South Imilit
- South Midway
- Wag
- Ascension
- Nagjuttuuq
- Qikiqtaaluk (Foxe Basin)
- Southampton
- Aiqqujat
- Airartuuq
- Austin
- Bibby
- Broken
- Coats
- Dunne Foxe
- East Pen
- Flattop
- Imiligaarjuk
- Imilijjuaq
- Irik
- Ivuniraarjuq
- Kayak
- Marble
- Maittuq
- Pitsiulartok
- Promise
- Sentry
- Southampton
- Walrus (Fisher Strait)
- Walrus (Hudson Bay)
Islands in italics are inhabited. See also Islands of the Kitikmeot Region, Islands of the Qikiqtaaluk Region
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