Resolute Bay is an

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waterway in the

Qikiqtaaluk Region The Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtani Region (Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ ) or Baffin Region is the easternmost, northernmost, and southernmost administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. Qikiqtaaluk is the traditional Inuktitut name f ...

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, Canada. It is located in

Parry Channel The Parry Channel ( iu, ᑕᓪᓗᕈᑎᐅᑉ ᐃᒪᖓ, ''Tallurutiup Imanga'') is a natural waterway through the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Its eastern two-thirds lie in the territory of Nunavut, while its western third (west of 110° ...

on the southern side of Cornwallis Island. The hamlet of Resolute is located on the northern shore of the bay with

Resolute Bay Airport Resolute Bay Airport is located at Resolute, Nunavut, Canada, and is operated by the government of Nunavut. It is one of the northernmost airfields in Canada to receive scheduled passenger airline service (Grise Fiord Airport, which is served ...

to the northwest. The

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associated with Resolute Bay are called ''Qausuittuq'' and the population of the hamlet in the

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was 229. On the western shore, the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE) and the

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operated a launch site for

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. Between 1966 and 1971 rockets of the types

Black Brant The brant or brent goose (''Branta bernicla'') is a small goose of the genus '' Branta''. There are three subspecies, all of which winter along temperate-zone sea-coasts and breed on the high-Arctic tundra. The Brent oilfield was named after ...

and Boosted Arcas were launched. File:Orthographic projection centred over Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada.png, Orthographic projection centred over Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada. File:Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada - Lambert Projection.png, Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada - Lambert Projection. File:Resolute Bay 1 1997-08-02.jpg, Resolute Bay: View from Signal Hill to the Inuit-Settlement "Village" and to Resolute Passage (August 1997) File:Resolute Bay 2 1997-08-02.jpg, Another view over Resolute Bay to the Inuit Settlement "Village" (August 1997) 1 of several Ancient Thule Homes

References

* Bremner, Peter C. ''Diamond Drilling in Permafrost at Resolute Bay, Northwest Territories''. Publications of the Dominion Observatory (Ottawa), v. 16, no. 12. Ottawa: Edmond Cloutier, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, 1955. * Canada, and F. C. Plet. ''Q-Indices of Magnetic Activity at Resolute Bay, Baker Lake, and Yellowknife Magnetic Observatories for Selected Days of the International Geophysical Year''. Publications of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, v.27, no. 4. 1963. * Higdon, Jeff W., and Stefan Romberg. 2006. "Observations of Juvenile Ivory Gulls (Pagophila Eburnea) in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada, August 2005". ''

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''. 42, no. 2: 170-172. * Hocking, W K. 2001. "Special Section: Early Polar Cap Observatory - Middle Atmosphere Dynamical Studies at Resolute Bay Over a Full Representative Year: Mean Winds, Tides, and Special Oscillations (Paper 2000RS001003)". ''Radio Science''. 36, no. 6: 1795. * Hodges, J. C., and Howard Francis Bates. ''The Polar Auroral Radar System McMurdo Base, Antarctica and Resolute Bay, N.W.T., Canada''. Menlo Park, Calif: Stanford Research Institute, 1975. * Lund, Karen E. ''An Investigation of Cadmium and Lead from a High Arctic Waste Disposal Site, Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada''. Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 2005. * Michel, Christine. ''Biological investigation of first-year sea ice near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, spring to early summer 2001''. Winnipeg: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2003. * Sauriol, Jacques. ''Channel Development and Fluvial Processes in Snow-Filled Valleys, Resolute Bay, N.W.T''. Hamilton, Ont: McMaster University, 1978. * Stocker, Zbigniew Stanislaw J. ''The Ecology of the Streams at Char Lake, Resolute Bay, North West Territories''. Waterloo, Ont: University of Waterloo, Dept. of Biology, 1972.

Mapping

*Parry Channel, *Cornwallis Island, *Resolute, *Resolute Bay Airport, *DRTE/CRC launch site, {{Spaceport Bays of Qikiqtaaluk Region Spaceports

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