Minto Inlet
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Minto Inlet is located east of
Amundsen Gulf Amundsen Gulf is a gulf located mainly in the Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories, Canada with a small section in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut. It lies between Banks Island and Victoria Island and the mainland. It is approximately in leng ...
in western Victoria Island, at the southern end of
Prince of Wales Strait The Prince of Wales Strait is a strait in the Northwest Territories of Canada separating Banks Island to the northwest from Victoria Island to the southeast. It extends from Viscount Melville Sound in the northeast to Amundsen Gulf in the south ...
in the Northwest Territories. It is long and between wide. The inlet is part of the historical territory of the
Copper Inuit Copper Inuit, also known as Kitlinermiut and Inuinnait, are a Canadian Inuit group who live north of the tree line, in what is now the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut and in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest ...
. It continues to be notable for the Minto Inlet caribou herd calving grounds.
Richard Collinson Admiral Sir Richard Collinson (7 November 1811 – 13 September 1883) was an English naval officer and explorer of the Northwest Passage. Early life He was born in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, then part of County Durham. He joined the R ...
wintered here in 1851/52.


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Minto Inlet and the "Blond Eskimos"
Inlets of the Northwest Territories Inlets of the Arctic Ocean Victoria Island (Canada) {{NorthwestTerritories-geo-stub