Elwin Bay

{{Short description|Bay in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=July 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox body of water |name= Elwin Bay |image= |caption = |location= [[Prince Regent Inlet]] |coords= {{coord|73|32|N|90|55|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:500000|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OAFDO|Elwin Bay|date=29 July 2024}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Elwin Bay}} |rivers= |oceans= [[Arctic Ocean]] |pushpin_map=Canada Nunavut |countries= Canada |length= |width= |area= |cities= Uninhabited |references= }} '''Elwin Bay''' is an [[Arctic]] waterway in the [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]], [[Nunavut]], Canada. It is located [[Prince Regent Inlet]] by the northeastern shore of [[Somerset Island (Nunavut)|Somerset Island]]. The abandoned [[trading post]] of [[Port Leopold]] lies {{cvt|40|km}} north.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search?latdec=73.533333&londec=-90.916667&sort-field=distance&from=Elwin+Bay&q=Port+Leopold |title=Point-to-point distance Elwin Bay – Port Leopold |date=16 February 2021 |access-date=29 July 2024}}</ref>

==History== In 1852, in search of [[Franklin's lost expedition]], the French [[Arctic]] explorer Lieutenant [[Joseph René Bellot]] spent time in the bay and its surrounds.<ref name="Bellot">{{cite book|last1=Bellot|first1=Joseph René |author-link=Joseph René Bellot |others=National Art Library (Great Britain). Forster Collection|title=Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph René Bellot, with his Journal of a Voyage in the Polar Seas in Search of Sir John Franklin |editor=Jean Baptiste Julien Lemer |publisher=Hurst and Blacket |date=1855 |volume=2 |pages=5, 6, 280, 287, 304, 327, 328, 334 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vn6EMY2Of1MC&q=%22Elwin+Bay%22&pg=PA328}}</ref>

It is filled with the skeletons and bones of several hundred [[Beluga whale|beluga]] left by [[Whaling|whalers]]. Many hunters died on whaling expeditions.

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[[Category:Bays of the Qikiqtaaluk Region]]