Princess Marie Bay

{{Short description|Bay in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}} {{distinguish|text=[[Marie Bay]] on Melville Island}} {{Infobox body of water |name= Princess Marie Bay |image= |caption = |location= [[Nares Strait]] |coords= {{coord|79|20|N|076|00|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:500000|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OANEX|Princess Marie Bay|date=September 2, 2024}}</ref>|display=inline,title |name=Princess Marie Bay}} |rivers= |oceans= [[Arctic Ocean]] |pushpin_map=Canada Nunavut |countries= Canada |length= |width= |area= |cities= Uninhabited |references= }} '''Princess Marie Bay''' is an [[Arctic]] waterway in the [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]], [[Nunavut]], Canada. It is located in [[Nares Strait]] by eastern [[Ellesmere Island]], and marks the southwestern edge of [[Cook Peninsula]]. It is also south of the [[Sven Hedin Glacier]].

==Fauna== Its lowland habitat is characterized by wet [[Cyperaceae|sedge]] meadows.<ref name="ucalgary">{{cite journal|last=Henry|first=G.|author2=B. Freedman |author3=J. Svoboda |date=March 1986|title=Survey of Vegetated Areas and Muskox Populations in East-Central Ellesmere Island|journal=Arctic|publisher=ucalgary.ca|volume=39|issue=1|pages=80|url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic39-1-78.pdf|doi=10.14430/arctic2050}}</ref>

==Exploration== [[Robert Peary]]'s 1898 exploration included this bay.<ref name="Ingersoll">{{cite web|url=http://www.pearyhenson.org/robertepeary/cover.htm |title=Conquest of the North — Story of Com. Peary's Life |last=Ingersoll |first=Ernest |date=1920 |access-date=June 11, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515124440/http://pearyhenson.org/robertepeary/cover.htm |archive-date=May 15, 2008 }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{Bays of Nunavut}}

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

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