Cumberland Sound
| Cumberland Sound | ||
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 The settlement of Pangnirtung on the fjord of the same name, an eastern branch of the Cumberland Sound |
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| Waters | Labrador Sea ( Atlantic Ocean ) | |
| Land mass | Baffin Island | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 13 ′ N , 65 ° 45 ′ W | |
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| width | an average of 65 km | |
| length | approx. 300 km | |
| Greatest water depth | 1200 m | |
| Islands | Lemieux Islands , Kikastan Islands | |
| Tributaries | McKeand River , Ranger River , Weasel River | |
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The Cumberland Sound is an estuary of the Labrador Sea in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut .
geography
He leads between the peninsulas Cumberland Peninsula and Hall Peninsula about 300 km into the interior of Baffin Island into it. It is on average 65 km wide. Its coastline is characterized by numerous fjords and offshore islands.
history
Cumberland Sound was discovered in 1585 by the British navigator John Davis while searching for the Northwest Passage and was navigated two years later. In 1840 the Inuk Eenoolooapik (approx. 1820–1847) led the Scottish whaler William Penny into the Cumberland Sound, who was then rich in bowhead whales , while the stocks in the traditional fishing areas had declined. At the end of the 1850s, permanent whaling stations were established on Kekerten Island and Blacklead Island , around which several hundred Inuit settled. When whaling came to a standstill around 1920, these settlements were abandoned. The only inhabited place on Cumberland Sound today is Pangnirtung .
As part of the First International Polar Year 1882/1883, the German Reich set up a research station on Kingua Fiord at the end of Cumberland Sound. In 1883 Franz Boas came to Kekerten Island to conduct ethnological field research among the Inuit of Baffin Island. In 1909 the Arctic explorer Bernhard Hantzsch started his Baffinland expedition here.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cumberland Sound in The Canadian Encyclopedia (English)
- ^ William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia . tape 1 . ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 52–53 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Kenn Harper: Eenoolooapik . In: Mark Nuttall (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arctic . tape 1 . Routledge, New York and London 2003, ISBN 1-57958-436-5 , pp. 543-544 ( limited preview in Google Book search).