Eetookashoo Bay is a

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in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located at the northern end of Axel Heiberg Island between

Cape Thomas Hubbard Cape Thomas Hubbard is a headland located in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. Projecting into the Arctic Ocean, it is situated on the northern tip of Axel Heiberg Island, from Etah, Greenland. History It was reached by Robert Peary in ...

and Cape Stallworthy. The bay is named in honor of Eetookashoo (''Itukassuk''), one of the

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who had traveled with

Frederick Cook Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) was an American explorer, physician, and ethnographer who claimed to have reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908. That was nearly a year before Robert Peary, who similarly clai ...

and Donald Baxter MacMillan.

References

* Atlas of Canada {{Bays of Nunavut Bays of Qikiqtaaluk Region Sverdrup Islands