Prince Alfred Bay

{{Short description|Bay in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox body of water |name= Prince Alfred Bay |image= |caption = |location= [[Wellington Channel]] |coords= {{coord|76|19|N|93|22|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:500000|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OANDY|Prince Alfred Bay|date=2 September 2024}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Prince Alfred Bay}} |rivers= |pushpin_map=Canada Nunavut |oceans= [[Arctic Ocean]] |countries= Canada |length= |width= |area= |cities= Uninhabited |references= }} '''Prince Alfred Bay''' is a waterway in the [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]], [[Nunavut]], Canada. It lies off the western coast of [[Devon Island]], forming a border of the [[Grinnell Peninsula]], in the eastern high [[Arctic]]. Like [[Pioneer Bay]] to the south, it is an arm of [[Wellington Channel]].

==Geography== Prince Alfred Bay's southern coast is characterized by rugged hills.<ref name="Sutherland">{{cite book|last=Sutherland|first=Peter Cormack |title=Journal of a voyage in Baffin's bay and Barrow straits, in the years 1850-1851 ..: under the command of Mr. William Penney, in search of the missing crews of H. M. ships, Erebus and Terror ..|publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans|date=1852|edition=Digitized Sep 18, 2007|pages=87|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qKwNAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22prince+alfred+bay%22+devon&pg=PA87}}</ref>

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==Further reading== * Morrow, D. W., & Kerr, J. W. (1977). ''Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Lower Paleozoic formations near Prince Alfred Bay, Devon Island''. Ottawa, Canada: Geological Survey of Canada. * Morrow, D. W., & Kerr, J. W. (1986). ''Geology of Grinnell Peninsula and the Prince Alfred Bay area, Devon Island, District of Franklin, Northwest Territories''. Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada.

[[Category:Bays of the Qikiqtaaluk Region]]