Terror Bay ( iu, ᐊᒥᑦᕈᖅ, ) is an
Arctic
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waterway in the
Kitikmeot Region,
Nunavut,
Canada
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. It is located in the south western side of
King William Island. The entrance to the bay is marked by Fitzjames Island on the west and Irving Islands to the east. The Bay opens to
Queen Maud Gulf
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.
The bay was one of a series of landmarks along the waters explored by
Franklin's lost expedition
Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain (Royal Navy), Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, and , and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sect ...
between 1845 and 1848. The bay has the same name as
HMS ''Terror'', one of the two ships of the expedition. The ships entered Baffin Bay in 1845 on their quest to find a Northwest Passage, and were abandoned sometime in 1848. Terror Bay was officially named by the
Geographical Names Board of Canada in 1910.
Inuit
Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...
oral history provided clues about the ships' demise, but the precise locations of the wrecks were not known for over 160 years as these stories were ignored.
In 2016,
Arctic Research Foundation researchers on board the ''Martin Bergmann'' announced that they had found the wreck of HMS ''Terror'' in Terror Bay. They had been led there by a tip from
Inuk
Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and ...
crewman Sammy Kogvik, from
Gjoa Haven
Gjoa Haven (; Inuktitut: Uqsuqtuuq, syllabics: ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ , meaning "lots of fat", referring to the abundance of sea mammals in the nearby waters; or ʒɔa evən is an Inuit hamlet in Nunavut, above the Arctic Circle, located in t ...
, who reported seeing a mast protruding from the ice in Terror Bay during a hunting trip in 2010. The wreck of the other ship of the lost expedition,
HMS ''Erebus'', had previously been found in 2014.
Steve Ducharme, "HMS Terror, Franklin’s second ship, finally found in Nunavut", ''Nunatsiaq News'', September 12, 2016
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References
{{Bays of Nunavut
Bays of Kitikmeot Region
Franklin's lost expedition
History of Nunavut
Maritime history of Canada