Admiralty Inlet is a bay in the
Qikiqtaaluk Region of
Nunavut
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, Canada.
It extends southerly from
Lancaster Sound
Lancaster Sound () is a body of water in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located between Devon Island and Baffin Island, forming the eastern entrance to the Parry Channel and the Northwest Passage. East of the sound lies Baffin Bay ...
along the western shore of
Baffin Island
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's
Borden Peninsula. The hamlet of
Arctic Bay is located on
Uluksan Peninsula, a landform that juts into Admiralty Inlet south of
Sirmilik National Park.
Several waterways extend from it, including
Elwin Inlet,
Baillarge Bay,
Strathcona Sound,
Victor Bay
Victor Bay () is a bay about wide and long, indenting the coast between Pourquoi Pas Point and Mathieu Rock, Antarctica. The bay is marked by an extensive chain of icebergs breaking away from the high tongue of Commandant Charcot Glacier. It ...
,
Adams Sound,
Levasseur Inlet, and
Moffet Inlet, before it ends at
Jungersen Bay. There are many islands within Admiralty Inlet including,
Peter Richards Islands,
Yeoman Island and
Saneruarsuk Islands.
Admiralty Inlet sustains a large population of
narwhals.
Caribou
Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subspe ...
,
polar bear
The polar bear (''Ursus maritimus'') is a hypercarnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is the largest extant bear specie ...
s, and
walrus
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frequent the area.
History
Admiralty Inlet was first charted by Admiral Sir
Edward Parry in 1820.
References
Inlets of Baffin Island
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