# Bray Island

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Island in Nunavut, Canada

Bray Island Bray Island, Nunavut. Bray Island Show map of Nunavut Bray Island Show map of Canada Geography Location Foxe Basin Coordinates 69°16′N 77°00′W / 69.267°N 77.000°W / 69.267; -77.000 (Bray Island)[1] Archipelago Arctic Archipelago Area 689 km2 (266 sq mi) Administration Canada Territory Nunavut Region Qikiqtaaluk Demographics Population Uninhabited

**Bray Island** is one of the [Canadian Arctic islands](/source/Arctic_Archipelago) located in [Nunavut](/source/Nunavut), Canada along the southern coast of [Baffin Island](/source/Baffin_Island). It is located in [Foxe Basin](/source/Foxe_Basin), at [69°16′N 77°00′W / 69.267°N 77.000°W / 69.267; -77.000 (Bray Island)](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Bray_Island&params=69_16_N_77_00_W_&title=Bray+Island)[1], and has an area of 689 km2 (266 sq mi).[2]

Bray Island was the home of FOX-A, a [Distant Early Warning Line](/source/Distant_Early_Warning_Line) and now a [North Warning System](/source/North_Warning_System) site. However, Bray Island has no permanent residents.

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-coord_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-coord_1-1) ["Bray Island"](https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique?id=OACPV). *[Geographical Names Data Base](/source/GeoBase_(geospatial_data)#Geographical_Names_Data_Base)*. [Natural Resources Canada](/source/Natural_Resources_Canada).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["The Atlas of Canada - Sea Islands"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100702145716/http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/auth/english/learningresources/facts/islands.html). Natural Resources Canada. Archived from [the original](http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/auth/english/learningresources/facts/islands.html) on 2010-07-02. Retrieved 2011-05-05.

v t e Islands of the Qikiqtaaluk Region Adams Akpatok Alfred Allen Arvalik Aulattivik Aulitivik Aulitiving Baffin Barth Beacon (Ungava Bay) Bergesen Bjarnason Bylot Davids Dexterity Diana Edgeworth Eider Elder Fraser Gyrfalcon Hamilton Imiliit Imiqqutailaqtuuq Kaigosuiyat Kilian Lady Franklin Landslip Lock Low Marvin Mumiksaa Nakoaiyet Nova Zembla Old Squaw Otrick Pandora Payne Peter Richards Pilattuaq Pisiktarfik Plover Prescott Prince Leopold Prince of Wales Qikiqta Qikiqtaaluk Qimivvik Round Russell Saglaarjuk Saglirjuaq Salikuit Saneruarsuk Simialuk Somerset Spicer Stephens Trinity Vesey Hamilton Vivian Wollaston Yeoman Young Belcher Islands Bradbury Broomfield Bun Cake Camsell Dove Fair Flaherty Innetalling Karlay La Duke Loaf Mata Mavor Moore Nero Ney O'Leary Range Renouf Snape Split Tukarak Twin Cairns Walton Wiegand Islands of Cumberland Sound Akulagok Anarnittuq Aupaluktok Aupaluktut Blacklead Clear Passage Drum Ekallulik Iglunga Imigen Ivisa Kaigosuit Kangigutsak Kekertelung Kekerten Kekertukdjuak Kudjak Maktaktujanak Miliakdjuin Moodie Nimigen Nunatak Nuvujen Opingivik Sanigut Saunik Shakshukowshee Shakshukuk Tesseralik Tuapait Upajjana Utaqqiurviarjuruluk Utsusivik Wareham Islands of Davis Strait Aggijjat Akuglek Alikdjuak Angijak Broughton Idjuniving Kekertaluk Kekertuk Kekerturnak Manitung Monumental Nedlukseak Nudlung Nunatsiaq Nuvuktik Paallavvik Pilektuak Qaqulluit Rock Satigsun Islands of Foxe Basin Air Force Bird Bray Foley Igloolik Kapuiviit Koch Nirlirnaqtuuq North Tweedsmuir Prince Charles Qikiqtaarjuk Rowley Siuraq South Tweedsmuir White Winter Islands of Frobisher Bay Algerine Alligator Anchorage Aubrey Augustus Bear Beveridge Bishop Brigus Brook Bruce Cairn Camp Carter Chase Coffin Crowell Culbertson Daniel Dog Eden Emerick Falk Faris Field Fletcher Frobisher's Farthest Gabriel Gardiner Gay Gross Halford Hantzsch Harper Hill Jenvey Kodlunarn Kudlago Kungo Lefferts Leopold Loks Land Long Low Luella Mair Mark Mary McAllister McBride McLaren McLean Metela Mitchell Monument Nest Nouyarn Ogden Pan Peak Pichit Pike Pink Lady Pope Potter Precipice Ptarmigan Pugh Qarsau Quadrifid Redan Resor Sale Scalene Sliver Smith Sybil Thompson Whiskukun Islands of the Gulf of Boothia Crown Prince Frederik Glen Honeyman Lavoie Sabine Wales Islands of Hudson Bay Awrey Big Booth Bronson Commodore Cox Digges Eddy Elsie Fraley Frazier Gilmour Harrison J. Gordon Johnnys Kugong Long Mansel Marcopeet McCormack Moore Nuvuk Ottawa Pattee Perley Smith Islands of Hudson Strait Anguttuaq Aulatsiviit Avingasittuit Siqinirsipangat Beacon (Hudson Strait) Black Bluff Bush Button Charles Clark Dolphin Dorset Edgell Erhardt Goodwin Gudmusson Hector Holdridge Ijjuriktuq Ivvitsa Kaavvijjuaq King Kinngarjuaq Lacy Lavoie Lawson Leading Lower Savage MacColl Mallik Middle Savage Mill Naniruaq Niels Nottingham Nunarijjait Nuvuktiqpaaraaluk Nuvursiit Observation Point Poodlatee Qaqqannalik Qaiqsuarjuk Qikiqtaalujjuaq Qikiqtarjuaq Qikiqtarjuarusiq Resolution Saarru Salisbury Saqajaa Sheer Strathcona Takijualuk Ukaliqtuuq Ungirlauttat Upirngiviaaluk Islands of James Bay Akimiski Bear Big Cape Hope Carey Charlton Grey Goose Gull Jacob Moore North Twin Paint Hills Solomons Temple South Twin Spencer Stag Strutton Sunday Trodely Twin Walter Weston Islands of the Labrador Sea Brevoort Cape Chidley Christopher Hall Hozier Hudson Ilikok Jackson Killiniq Knight Leybourne Little Hall Muingmak Rogers Queen Elizabeth Islands Ellesmere Island Ellesmere Ward Hunt Parry Islands Alexander Baillie-Hamilton Bathurst Beechey Berkeley Borden Brock Browne Buckingham Byam Martin Cameron Cheyne Coburg Cocked Hat Cornwall Cornwallis Crescent Des Voeux Devon Dundas Edmund Walker Eglinton Ekins Emerald Exmouth Fairholme Findlay Group Garrett Graham Griffith Grosvenor Hans (with Greenland) Helena Houston Stewart Hoved Hyde Parker John Barrow Little Cornwallis Lougheed Lowther Mackenzie King Moore Marc Margaret Massey Melville Nookap Norman Lockyer North Kent Patterson Philpots Pim Pioneer Prince Patrick Princess Royal Seymour Skraeling Spit Stupart Table Thor Truro Vanier Sverdrup Islands Amund Ringnes Axel Heiberg Ellef Ringnes Fay Gretha Haig-Thomas Hat King Christian Meighen Stor Ulvingen Islands in italics are inhabited. See also Islands of the Kitikmeot Region, Islands of the Kivalliq Region See also Islands of the Kitikmeot Region, Islands of the Kivalliq Region.

v t e Subdivisions of Nunavut Regions Kitikmeot (Unorganized) Kivalliq (Unorganized) Qikiqtaaluk (Unorganized) Electoral districts Federal Nunavut Territorial Aggu Aivilik Amittuq Arviat North-Whale Cove Arviat South Baker Lake Cambridge Bay Gjoa Haven Hudson Bay Iqaluit-Manirajak Iqaluit-Niaqunnguu Iqaluit-Sinaa Iqaluit-Tasiluk Kugluktuk Netsilik Pangnirtung Quttiktuq Rankin Inlet North-Chesterfield Inlet Rankin Inlet South South Baffin Tununiq Uqqummiut Communities Arctic Bay Arviat Baker Lake Bathurst Inlet Cambridge Bay Chesterfield Inlet Clyde River Coral Harbour Gjoa Haven Grise Fiord Igloolik Iqaluit Apex Kimmirut Kinngait Kugaaruk Kugluktuk Naujaat Pangnirtung Pond Inlet Qikiqtarjuaq Rankin Inlet Resolute Sanikiluaq Sanirajak Taloyoak Whale Cove Weather stations and Canadian Armed Forces bases Alert CFS Alert Ennadai Eureka Isachsen Nanisivik Naval Facility Mine sites Operating Baffinland Iron Mine Doris North Meadowbank Gold Mine Defunct Bent Horn Mine Cullaton Lake/Shear Lake Mine Jericho Diamond Mine Lupin Mine Nanisivik Mine Polaris mine Rankin Inlet Mine DEW line and NWS sites Bernard Harbour Bray Island Brevoort Island Broughton Island Byron Bay Cambridge Bay Cape Dyer Cape Hooper Cape Mcloughlin Cape Mercy Cape Peel West Cape Young Clifton Point Clinton Point Croker River Dewar Lakes Durban Island Edinburgh Island Ekalugad Gjoa Haven Gladman Point Harding River Hat Island Kangok Fjord Keats Point Keith Bay Kivitoo Lady Franklin Point Lailor River Loks Land Longstaff Bluff Mackar Inlet Matheson Point Nudluardjuk Lake Pelly Bay Qikiqtaryuaq Resolution Island Ross Point Rowley Island Sanirajak Scarpa Lake Shepherd Bay Simpson Lake Sturt Point Former Amadjuak Brooman Point Village Craig Harbour Dundas Harbour Iglunga Killiniq Nanisivik Native Point Nuwata Padlei Port Leopold Tavani Hudson's Bay Company trading posts Amadjuak Apex Arctic Bay Baker Lake Bathurst Inlet Bay Chimo Belcher Islands Blacklead Island Cambridge Bay Cape Dorset Charlton Island Depot Chesterfield Inlet Clyde River Coats Island Dundas Harbour Eskimo Point Fort Hearne Fort Ross Frobisher Bay Gjoa Haven Igloolik Kent Peninsula King William Island Kugaryuak Lake Harbour Mansel Island Nueltin House Padley Pangnirtung Pangnirtung Fox Farm Perry River Ponds Inlet Port Burwell Port Leopold Repulse Bay Southampton Island Tavane Tree River Wager Inlet

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