Rosse Bay

{{Short description|Bay in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox body of water |name= Rosse Bay |image= |caption = |location= [[Nares Strait]] |coords= {{coord|78|40|N|74|35|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:500000|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OAODH|Rosse Bay|date=2 September 2024}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Rosse Bay}} |pushpin_map=Canada Nunavut#Canada |rivers= |oceans= [[Arctic Ocean]] |countries= Canada |length= |width= |area= |cities= Uninhabited |references= }} '''Rosse Bay''' is an [[Arctic]] waterway in the [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]], [[Nunavut]], Canada. It is located in [[Nares Strait]] between [[Pim Island]] and [[Ellesmere Island]]'s [[Johan Peninsula]]. The bay is also connected to [[Rice Strait]].

==Geography== Physical characteristics include a gravel and sand [[moraine]] ridge on its southwestern shore.<ref name="Harington">{{cite book|last=Harington|first=C. R. |others=Canadian Museum of Nature|title=Annotated bibliography of Quaternary vertebrates of northern North America: with radiocarbon dates|publisher=University of Toronto Press|date=2003 |pages=35|isbn=0-8020-4817-X|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQtyg5m1zQkC&q=rosse+bay+nunavut&pg=PA35}}</ref> There are also tidewater glaciers. The main discharge of Lefferts Glacier is into Rosse Bay.<ref name="Greely">{{cite book|last=Greely|first=Adolphus Washington |title=Three years of Arctic service: an account of the Lady Franklin bay expedition of 1881-84, and the attainment of the farthest north|publisher=C. Scribner's sons|date=1886|edition=Digitized 6 November 2008|volume=2|pages=153|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=btSfAAAAMAAJ&q=%22rosse+bay%22+arctic&pg=PA153}}</ref>

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[[Category:Bays of the Qikiqtaaluk Region]]