Chantrey Inlet

{{Short description|Bay on the Arctic coast of Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} [[File:Boothia and melville peninsula 1.PNG|thumb|upright=1.2|[[King William Island]] is the large island southwest of the [[Boothia Peninsula]], and Chantrey Inlet is south of that, cutting south into the mainland.]]

'''Chantrey Inlet''' (''Tariunnuaq'') is a bay on the Arctic coast of Canada. It marks the southeast "corner" where the generally east–west coast turns sharply north. To the west is the [[Adelaide Peninsula]] and to the east is mainland. [[King William Island]] shelters it to the northwest. To the west the [[Simpson Strait]] separates King William Island from the Adelaide Peninsula. Its mouth is marked by Point Ogle on the west and Cape Britannia on the east.<ref>Glyn Williams, "Arctic Labyrinth", page 261</ref> West of Point Ogle is Barrow Bay, Starvation Cove and Point Richardson. The [[Back River (Nunavut)|Back River]] enters from the south. Near its mouth is a weather station on the [[Hayes River (Nunavut)|Hayes River]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.r-arcticnet.sr.unh.edu/Points/P3687.html |title=Hayes River Above Chantrey Inlet |publisher=uhn.edu |access-date=2008-01-22}}</ref> [[Montreal Island (Nunavut)|Montreal Island]] is contained within the Inlet. It is {{cvt|100|mi|order=flip}} long and {{cvt|50|mi|order=flip}} wide at its mouth.

Chantrey Inlet is the historical territory of the [[Utkuhiksalik]] (''the people of the place where there is [[soapstone]]''), nomadic [[Inuit]] who lived in snowhouses ([[igloo]]s) in the winter, tents in the summer, and whose diet centered on trout ([[lake trout]] and [[Arctic char]]), [[Broad whitefish|whitefish]], and [[Reindeer|caribou]]. In 1834 [[George Back]] followed the [[Back River (Nunavut)|Back River]] to its mouth and explored Chantrey Inlet. In 1839 [[Peter Warren Dease]] and [[Thomas Simpson (explorer)|Thomas Simpson]] reached it by sailing along the coast from the west. In the present day, sportsmen arrive in Chantrey Inlet by chartered bushplane for fishing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-06/msg00115.html |title=MDMD: ghost twins: Franklin, Kennedy |publisher=osdir.com |access-date=2008-01-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080608023336/http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-06/msg00115.html |archive-date=2008-06-08 }}</ref>

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