Irene Bay

{{Short description|Bay in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=August 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox body of water |name= Irene Bay |image= |pushpin_map=Canada Nunavut |caption = |location= [[Eureka Sound]] |coords= {{coord|79|00|N|81|47|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:500000|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OAHZY|Irene Bay|date=24 August 2024}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Irene Bay}} |rivers= |oceans= [[Arctic Ocean]] |countries= Canada |length= |width= |area= |cities= Uninhabited |references= }} '''Irene Bay''' is an [[Arctic]] waterway in the [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]]. [[Nunavut]], Canada. It is located in [[Eureka Sound]] by western [[Ellesmere Island]].

==Geography== The [[Sverdrup Pass]], a {{cvt|68|mi|order=flip}} long travel route across the island, extends from Irene Bay to [[Flagler Bay]].<ref name="McCullough">{{cite book|last=McCullough|first=Karen Margrethe|others=Archaeological Survey of Canada|title=The Ruin Islanders: Thule culture pioneers in the Eastern High Arctic|publisher=Canadian Museum of Civilization|date=1989|edition=Digitized 24 September 2008|pages=17|isbn=0-660-10793-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RZ56AAAAMAAJ&q=%22flagler+bay%22+}}</ref>

==Flora== In the late 1980s, several sites of fossilized tree stumps and branches were found on its northern shore, an area now characterized by [[Arctic willow]] shrubs.<ref name="ucalgary">{{cite web|url=http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/scripts/minisa.dll/144/proe/propub/au+raillard,+m*+and+rt+any+p?COMMANDSEARCH|title=New fossil forest site at Irene Bay, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T.|last1=Thurston|first1=T.|last2=Raillard|first2=M.|last3=Svoboda|first3=J.|date=Winter 1989|publisher=ucalgary.ca|access-date=2009-06-11}}{{Dead link|date=December 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>

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[[Category:Bays of the Qikiqtaaluk Region]] [[Category:Ellesmere Island]]