Bartlett Bay

{{Short description|Bay in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=May 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox body of water |name= Bartlett Bay |image= |caption = |location= [[Nares Strait]] |coords= {{coord|79|10|N|074|45|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:500000|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OABRU|Bartlett Bay|date=30 May 2024}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Bartlett Bay}} |rivers= |oceans= [[Arctic Ocean]] |pushpin_map=Canada Nunavut |countries= Canada |length= |width= |area= |cities= Uninhabited |references= }} '''Bartlett Bay''' is an [[Arctic]] waterway in the [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]], [[Nunavut]], Canada. It is in [[Nares Strait]] off eastern [[Ellesmere Island]], off the [[Bache Peninsula]]. Victoria Head marks the northern tip of its mouth.

It is named in honour of Captain [[Robert Bartlett (explorer)|Robert Bartlett]], a [[Newfoundland Colony|Newfoundland]] navigator and Arctic explorer.

==Geography== The Bartlett Bay Lowland, encompassing an area of approximately {{cvt|50|km2}}, is composed of [[mesic habitat]] and wet meadows.<ref name="ucalgary">{{cite journal|last=Henry|first=G.|author2=B. Freedman|author3=J. Svoboda|date=March 1986|title=Survey of Vegetated Areas and Muskox Populations in East-Central Ellesmere Island|journal=Arctic|publisher=ucalgary.ca|volume=39|issue=1|pages=80|url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic39-1-78.pdf|doi=10.14430/arctic2050|archive-date=20 January 2022|access-date=12 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220120223758/https://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic39-1-78.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Fauna== [[Muskox]] frequent the area.<ref name="ucalgary" />

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Bays of the Qikiqtaaluk Region]] [[Category:Ellesmere Island]]