# Chantrey Inlet

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Bay on the Arctic coast of Canada

[King William Island](/source/King_William_Island) is the large island southwest of the [Boothia Peninsula](/source/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](/source/Adelaide_Peninsula) and to the east is mainland. [King William Island](/source/King_William_Island) shelters it to the northwest. To the west the [Simpson Strait](/source/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.[1] West of Point Ogle is Barrow Bay, Starvation Cove and Point Richardson. The [Back River](/source/Back_River_(Nunavut)) enters from the south. Near its mouth is a weather station on the [Hayes River](/source/Hayes_River_(Nunavut)).[2] [Montreal Island](/source/Montreal_Island_(Nunavut)) is contained within the Inlet. It is 160 km (100 mi) long and 80 km (50 mi) wide at its mouth.

Chantrey Inlet is the historical territory of the [Utkuhiksalik](/source/Utkuhiksalik) (*the people of the place where there is [soapstone](/source/Soapstone)*), nomadic [Inuit](/source/Inuit) who lived in snowhouses ([igloos](/source/Igloo)) in the winter, tents in the summer, and whose diet centered on trout ([lake trout](/source/Lake_trout) and [Arctic char](/source/Arctic_char)), [whitefish](/source/Broad_whitefish), and [caribou](/source/Reindeer). In 1834 [George Back](/source/George_Back) followed the [Back River](/source/Back_River_(Nunavut)) to its mouth and explored Chantrey Inlet. In 1839 [Peter Warren Dease](/source/Peter_Warren_Dease) and [Thomas Simpson](/source/Thomas_Simpson_(explorer)) reached it by sailing along the coast from the west. In the present day, sportsmen arrive in Chantrey Inlet by chartered bushplane for fishing.[3]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Glyn Williams, "Arctic Labyrinth", page 261

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Hayes River Above Chantrey Inlet"](http://www.r-arcticnet.sr.unh.edu/Points/P3687.html). uhn.edu. Retrieved 2008-01-22.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["MDMD: ghost twins: Franklin, Kennedy"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080608023336/http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-06/msg00115.html). osdir.com. Archived from [the original](http://osdir.com/ml/culture.literature.thomas-pynchon/2002-06/msg00115.html) on 2008-06-08. Retrieved 2008-01-22.

[67°45′N 095°54′W / 67.750°N 95.900°W / 67.750; -95.900 (Chantrey Inlet)](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Chantrey_Inlet&params=67_45_N_095_54_W_type:waterbody_region:CA-NU&title=Chantrey+Inlet)[1]

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Chantrey Inlet"](https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique?id=OADHH). *[Geographical Names Data Base](/source/GeoBase_(geospatial_data)#Geographical_Names_Data_Base)*. [Natural Resources Canada](/source/Natural_Resources_Canada).

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