Ward Inlet () is a body of water in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk Region. It lies in eastern

Frobisher Bay Frobisher Bay is an inlet of the Davis Strait in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the southeastern corner of Baffin Island. Its length is about and its width varies from about at its outlet into the Labrador Sea to ...

, forming a wedge into Baffin Island, separating Becher Peninsula from

Hall Peninsula The Hall Peninsula is a peninsula on the southern end of Baffin Island, in Nunavut, Canada. It lies between Frobisher Bay on the west, and the Cumberland Sound on the east between 62°40'N and 65°10'W. The Hall Peninsula is part of the Arctic Tundr ...

Augustus Island Augustus Island is one of the many uninhabited Canadian Arctic islands in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. It is a Baffin Island offshore island located in inner Frobisher Bay. The island lies at the head of Ward Inlet, between Becher Peninsul ...

lies deep into the inlet. Ward inlet was the site of the

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's south Baffin operations until 1949 when they moved to

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to take advantage of Frobisher Bay Air Force Base located nearby.

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