Darnley Bay

{{Short description|Bay in the Northwest Territories, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=August 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox body of water |name= Darnley Bay |image= Airport Paulatuk.JPG |caption = [[Paulatuk]] airport, located next to the coast of Darnley Bay |location= [[Amundsen Gulf]] |coords= {{coord|69|35|01|N|123|40|08|W|region:CA-NT_type:waterbody_scale:500000|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|LAFYP|Darnley Bay|date=3 September 2024}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Darnley Bay}} |rivers= |oceans= [[Arctic Ocean]] |countries= Canada |length= |pushpin_map=Canada Northwest Territories |width= |area= |cities= Uninhabited |references= }}

'''Darnley Bay''' is a large inlet in the [[Northwest Territories]], Canada. It is a southern arm of the [[Amundsen Gulf]]. The bay measures {{cvt|45|km}} long, and {{cvt|32|km}} wide at its mouth.<ref name="bartleby">{{cite web |url=http://www.bartleby.com/69/9/D00809.html |title=Darnley Bay |date=2000 |work=The Columbia Gazetteer of North America |publisher=bartleby.com |accessdate=2009-03-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050129132015/http://www.bartleby.com/69/9/D00809.html |archivedate=2005-01-29 }}</ref>

The [[Parry Peninsula]] is to the west and Halcro Point is to the east. The [[Canadian Shield]] originates east of Darnley Bay, the terrain sloping upwards, and characterized by glacial deposits.<ref name="uoguelph">{{cite web|url=http://www.arctic.uoguelph.ca/cpe/environments/maps/detailed/mainland/nwt1.htm|title=The Northwest Territories|publisher=uoguelph.ca|accessdate=2009-03-07|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090803/http://www.arctic.uoguelph.ca/cpe/environments/maps/detailed/mainland/nwt1.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The bay was named by [[John Richardson (naturalist)|John Richardson]], while travelling with [[John Franklin]] during the Second Overland Expedition, for [[John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley]].<ref>{{cite report|url= http://www.pwnhc.ca/item/gazetteer-of-the-northwest-territories/|title=Gazetteer of the Northwest Territories|date=July 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927005107/http://www.pwnhc.ca/programs/downloads/gazetteer1.pdf|archive-date=September 27, 2013}}</ref>

In 1915, the [[Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–16|Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-16]] was the first to delineate the southern shore of Darnley Bay.<ref name="Davis">{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Richard Clarke |title=Lobsticks and Stone Cairns: Human Landmarks in the Arctic|publisher=University of Calgary Press|date=1996|pages=[https://archive.org/details/lobsticksstoneca00davi/page/153 153]–154|isbn=1-895176-88-3|url=https://archive.org/details/lobsticksstoneca00davi|url-access=registration|quote=riviere la ronciere-le noury Hornaday.}}</ref> The [[Hornaday River]] drains into the bay's southern shores, {{cvt|14|km}} east of the [[Inuvialuit]] [[hamlet (place)|hamlet]] of [[Paulatuk]].<ref name="Paddling ">{{cite web|url=http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/nt/tuktutnogait/activ/activ3_e.asp|title=Tuktut Nogait National Park of Canada: Activities: Paddling|publisher=pc.gc.ca|accessdate=2009-03-06|archive-date=2004-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040314150419/http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/nt/tuktutnogait/activ/activ3_e.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Bays of the Northwest Territories]] [[Category:Geography of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region]]