Dunne Foxe Island

Dunne Foxe Island
Geography
Location Hudson Bay
Coordinates 62°18′N 092°13′W / 62.300°N 92.217°W / 62.300; -92.217 (Dunne Foxe Island)Coordinates: 62°18′N 092°13′W / 62.300°N 92.217°W / 62.300; -92.217 (Dunne Foxe Island)
Archipelago Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Administration
Nunavut Nunavut
Region Kivalliq
Demographics
Population Uninhabited

Dunne Foxe Island is one of the Canadian arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada within western Hudson Bay. The hamlet of Whale Cove is 25 km (16 mi) to the west.[1]

The island was named on July 30, 1631 by Arctic explorer, Captain Luke Foxe.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Dunne Foxe Island, Nunavut, Canada". travelingluck.com. Retrieved 2008-12-02.
  2. ↑ Christy, M.; Foxe, L.; James, T.; Gellibrand, H.; W. W. (1894). The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull, and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in Search of a Northwest Passage, in 1631-32: With Narratives of the Earlier Northwest Voyages of Frobisher, Davis, Weymouth, Hall, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baflin, Hawkridge, Ad Others. London: Hakluyt Society. pp. cix. OCLC 1487462.


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