Croker Bay

{{Short description|Bay in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=June 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox body of water |name= Croker Bay |image=Croker Bay & Glacier Nunuvut Canada.jpg |caption =Croker Bay and glacier seen from the sea |location= [[Lancaster Sound]] |coords= {{coord|74|42|N|83|15|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:500000|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OADYE|Croker Bay|date=16 June 2024}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Croker Bay}} |rivers= |oceans= [[Arctic Ocean]] |countries= Canada |length= |pushpin_map=Canada Nunavut |width= |area= |cities= Uninhabited |references= }} '''Croker Bay''' (originally: '''Croker's Bay''') is an [[Arctic]] waterway in the [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]], [[Nunavut]], Canada. It lies off the southern coast of [[Devon Island]] in the eastern high Arctic. Like [[Maxwell Bay]] to the west, it is an arm of [[Lancaster Sound]] and [[Barrow Strait]].

The abandoned [[Dundas Harbour]] is {{cvt|32|km}} to the east.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search?latdec=74.7&londec=-83.25&sort-field=distance&from=Croker+Bay&q=Dundas+Harbour |title=Point-to-point distance Croker Bay – Dundas Harbour|date=16 February 2021|access-date=16 June 2024}}</ref>

Croker's Bay was named by [[William Edward Parry]] in honour of [[John Wilson Croker]].<ref name="Gardner">{{cite book|last=Gardner|first=Charles Kitchell |title=The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review |publisher=Wiley and Halsted|date=1822 |edition=Digitized 26 February 2007|volume=4|pages=65|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mBgAAAAAYAAJ}}</ref>

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[[Category:Bays of the Qikiqtaaluk Region]]