Albert Edward Bay

{{Short description|Bay in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox body of water | name= Albert Edward Bay | image= | caption = | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | pushpin_map = Canada Nunavut | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Nunavut | location= Eastern [[Victoria Island]] | coords= {{coord|69|34|N|103|10|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:500000|name=Albert Edward Bay|notes=<ref name=loca>{{Cite cgndb|OAAPV|Albert Edward Bay}}</ref>|display=inline,title}} | rivers= [[Ekalluk River]] | oceans= | countries= Canada | length= | width= | area= | cities= Uninhabited }}

'''Albert Edward Bay''' is a bay on the southeast side of [[Victoria Island]] in the [[Arctic Archipelago]]. It faces [[Victoria Strait]] to the east. There are several islands in the bay, the largest of which is [[Admiralty Island (Nunavut)|Admiralty Island]] at its mouth. Its north side is the [[Collinson Peninsula]].

It is part of the [[Kitikmeot Region]], [[Nunavut]], Canada and is named in honour of King [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|Edward VII]]. The first European to see it was [[John Rae (explorer)|John Rae]] in 1851, followed by some of [[Richard Collinson]]'s men two years later. It is the ancestral home of the [[Ekalluktogmiut]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-NhBAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Prince+Albert+Sound%22&pg=PA50|pages=30–31|title=The Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic Expedition of the American Museum: Preliminary Ethnological Report|last=Stefansson|first=Vilhjalmur|year=1914|publisher=The Trustees of the American Museum|location=New York|oclc=13626409}}</ref> group of [[Copper Inuit]] who lived along the [[Ekalluk River]].

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[[Category:Bays of the Kitikmeot Region]] [[Category:Victoria Island (Canada)]] [[Category:Former populated places in the Kitikmeot Region]]