{{Short description|Bay in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=May 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox body of water |name= Baring Bay |image= |caption = |location= [[Wellington Channel]] |coords= {{coord|75|40|N|92|03|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:500000|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OABPP|Baring Bay|date=30 May 2024}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Baring Bay}} |rivers= |oceans= [[Arctic Ocean]] |countries= Canada |pushpin_map=Canada Nunavut |length= |width= |area= |cities= Uninhabited |references= }} '''Baring Bay''' is an [[Arctic]] waterway in the [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]], [[Nunavut]], Canada. It lies off the southwestern coast of [[Devon Island]] in the eastern high Arctic. Like [[Macormick Bay]] to the south, it is an arm of [[Wellington Channel]].
It was named in 1850–1852 in honour of Sir [[Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook|Francis Thornhill Baring]] (1796–1866), then [[First Lord of the Admiralty]], along with Baring Strait (now [[Northumberland Sound]]), Baring Land and Baring Island (now [[Banks Island]]).<ref name="Taylor">{{cite book |last=Taylor |first=Isaac |title=Names and their histories: a handbook of historical geography and topographical nomenclature |publisher=Rivingtons |date=1898 |edition=2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/namesandtheirhi00taylgoog/page/n75 61] |url=https://archive.org/details/namesandtheirhi00taylgoog |quote=baring Bay. }}</ref> [[Baring Cape]] (the northwest point of [[Victoria Island]]) and [[Baring Channel]] (between the islands of [[Russell Island (Nunavut)|Russell]] and [[Prince of Wales Island (Nunavut)|Prince of Wales]]) were also named in his honour, but later.
==History== In August 1852, Baring Bay was the starting point of an expedition headed by Dr. [[Robert McCormick (explorer)|Robert McCormick]] in search for Sir [[John Franklin]] and his [[Franklin's lost expedition|missing expedition]].<ref name="Forlorn ">{{cite journal |date=1854 |title=Forlorn Hope |journal=Fraser's Magazine |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. |volume=49 |issue=Digitized 21 November 2007 |pages=633 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zsgRAAAAYAAJ }}</ref>
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{{Bays of Nunavut}}
[[Category:Bays of the Qikiqtaaluk Region]]
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