# Elwin Bay

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Bay in Nunavut, Canada

Elwin Bay Elwin Bay Location Prince Regent Inlet Coordinates 73°32′N 90°55′W / 73.533°N 90.917°W / 73.533; -90.917 (Elwin Bay)[1] Ocean/sea sources Arctic Ocean Basin countries Canada Settlements Uninhabited

**Elwin Bay** is an [Arctic](/source/Arctic) waterway in the [Qikiqtaaluk Region](/source/Qikiqtaaluk_Region), [Nunavut](/source/Nunavut), Canada. It is located [Prince Regent Inlet](/source/Prince_Regent_Inlet) by the northeastern shore of [Somerset Island](/source/Somerset_Island_(Nunavut)). The abandoned [trading post](/source/Trading_post) of [Port Leopold](/source/Port_Leopold) lies 40 km (25 mi) north.[2]

## History

In 1852, in search of [Franklin's lost expedition](/source/Franklin's_lost_expedition), the French [Arctic](/source/Arctic) explorer Lieutenant [Joseph René Bellot](/source/Joseph_Ren%C3%A9_Bellot) spent time in the bay and its surrounds.[3]

It is filled with the skeletons and bones of several hundred [beluga](/source/Beluga_whale) left by [whalers](/source/Whaling). Many hunters died on whaling expeditions.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Elwin Bay"](https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/unique?id=OAFDO). *[Geographical Names Data Base](/source/GeoBase_(geospatial_data)#Geographical_Names_Data_Base)*. [Natural Resources Canada](/source/Natural_Resources_Canada). 29 July 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Point-to-point distance Elwin Bay – Port Leopold"](https://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search?latdec=73.533333&londec=-90.916667&sort-field=distance&from=Elwin+Bay&q=Port+Leopold). 16 February 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Bellot_3-0)** [Bellot, Joseph René](/source/Joseph_Ren%C3%A9_Bellot) (1855). Jean Baptiste Julien Lemer (ed.). [*Memoirs of Lieutenant Joseph René Bellot, with his Journal of a Voyage in the Polar Seas in Search of Sir John Franklin*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Vn6EMY2Of1MC&q=%22Elwin+Bay%22&pg=PA328). Vol. 2. National Art Library (Great Britain). Forster Collection. Hurst and Blacket. pp. 5, 6, 280, 287, 304, 327, 328, 334.

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