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Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada
Beare Sound
Beare Sound is located in NunavutBeare SoundBeare Sound
Coordinates62°31′N 065°14′W / 62.517°N 65.233°W / 62.517; -65.233 (Beare Sound)
Basin countriesCanada
Settlementsuninhabited

Beare Sound or Beares Sound is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in eastern Frobisher Bay off the southern tip of Baffin Island's Blunt Peninsula.

Martin Frobisher named the sound after James Beare, principal surveyor of the 1577/78 Frobisher expedition.

References

  1. Brown, George Williams (1966). Dictionary of Canadian biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 85. ISBN 0-8020-3142-0. james beare frobisher.
  2. Shaw, N.; Greenfield, H.; Bates, H.W. (1843). The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. London: J. Murray. pp. 12, 16. OCLC 21468267.
Sounds of Nunavut
Kitikmeot Region
Kivalliq Region
Qikiqtaaluk Region


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