Cory Bay is an arm of the
Foxe Basin
Foxe Basin is a shallow oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula. For most of the year, it is blocked by sea ice (fast ice) and drift ice made up of multiple ice floes.
...
in the
Qikiqtaaluk Region of
Nunavut, Canada. It is located on northeastern
Foxe Peninsula
Foxe Peninsula is a peninsula found at the southern end of Baffin Island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It juts out from the southerly end of the island in a southwestly direction, dividing Foxe Basin and Hudson Strait. Its western ...
, in western
Baffin Island. The closest community is
Cape Dorset
Kinngait (Inuktitut meaning "high mountain" or "where the hills are"; Syllabics: ᑭᙵᐃᑦ), formerly known as Cape Dorset until 27 February 2020, is an Inuit hamlet located on Dorset Island near Foxe Peninsula at the southern tip of Baffin ...
, situated to the south, while
Nuwata, a former settlement, is situated to the west.
The
Great Plain of the Koukdjuak stretches from Cory Bay to
Hantzsch Bay, and then inland.
References
Bays of Foxe Basin
{{QikiqtaalukNU-geo-stub