Chantrey Inlet
| Chantrey Inlet | ||
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| Waters | Arctic Ocean | |
| Land mass | Mainland Canada | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 45 ′ N , 95 ° 54 ′ W | |
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| width | 40 km | |
| depth | approx. 110 km | |
| Islands | King Island , Montreal Island | |
| Tributaries | Back River | |
The Chantrey Inlet ( Tariunnuaq ) is a bay on the north coast of North America in the Canadian territory of Nunavut . It has a length of approx. 110 km and a width of 40 km. The Chantrey Inlet opens to the Rasmussen Basin in the north . The northwestern shore of the bay is part of the Adelaide Peninsula . The King William Island is northwest of the entrance to the bay.
The most important tributary is the Back River , whose mouth is at the southern end of the bay. Montreal Island is off the west coast of the bay, King Island is off the east coast.
The Chantrey Inlet is the historical area of the Utkuhiksalik (“people who live where there is soapstone ”), nomadic Inuit who live in igloos in winter and in tents in summer. These feed mainly on American arctic char , arctic char , Coregonus nasus and caribou .
In 1834, Captain George Back explored and mapped the Back River to Chantrey Inlet. Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson of the Hudson's Bay Company undertook follow-up expeditions in 1837–1839.
Nowadays, fishing tourists arrive at Chantrey Inlet by bush plane.
Individual evidence
- ^ Jörg Tews: Back River . In: Mark Nuttall (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arctic . tape 1 . Routledge, New York and London 2003, ISBN 1-57958-436-5 , pp. 185 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ^ William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia . tape 1 . ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 182 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).