Eqe Bay is an irregularly shaped, uninhabited

waterway A waterway is any navigable body of water. Broad distinctions are useful to avoid ambiguity, and disambiguation will be of varying importance depending on the nuance of the equivalent word in other languages. A first distinction is necessary b ...

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 ...

Nunavut Nunavut ( , ; iu, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ , ; ) is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' ...

, Canada. It is located on the western coast of north-central

Baffin Island Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada and the fifth-largest island in the world. Its area is , slightly larger than Spain; its population was 13,039 as of the 2021 Canadia ...

. An arm of the Foxe Basin, it contains no islands within it, but

Bray Island Bray Island is one of the Canadian Arctic islands located in Nunavut, Canada along the southern coast of Baffin Island. It is located in Foxe Basin, at , and has an area of . Bray Island was the home of FOX-A, a Distant Early Warning Line and ...

lies outside the mouth of the bay to the south.

Geology

The bay is within the northeastern

Rae Craton 250px, North America cratons and basement rock. The Rae Craton is an Archean craton located in northern Canada north of the Superior Craton. Ungava Peninsula The Ungava Peninsula, situated on the northeast portion of the Canadian Shield, is wher ...

References

Bays of Foxe Basin {{QikiqtaalukNU-geo-stub