Sawyer Bay

{{Short description|Bay in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox body of water |name= Sawyer Bay |alt = Sawyer Bay in a landscape shot |image=From_Mt_Cutten-_Sawyers_Bay_and_Port_Chalmers,_then_across_Otago_Harbour_to_Otago_Peninsula_(25517408056).jpg |caption =Sawyer Bay |location= [[Nares Strait]] |coords= {{coord|79|19|N|77|33|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:500000|notes=<ref>{{Cite cgndb|OAIVR|Sawyer Bay|date=2 September 2024}}</ref>|display=inline,title|name=Sawyer Bay}} |rivers= |pushpin_map=Canada Nunavut |oceans= [[Arctic Ocean]] |countries= Canada |length= |width= |area= |cities= Uninhabited |references= }} '''Sawyer Bay''' is an [[Arctic]] waterway in the [[Qikiqtaaluk Region]], [[Nunavut]], Canada. It is located in [[Nares Strait]] by eastern [[Ellesmere Island]]. [[Benedict Glacier]] fills the head of the bay.<ref name="Peary" />

==Exploration== [[Robert Peary]]'s 1905-1906 exploration included this bay.<ref name="Peary">{{cite book|last=Peary|first=Robert Edwin |title=Nearest the Pole: a narrative of the Polar expedition of the Peary Arctic club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906|url=https://archive.org/details/nearestpolenarra00pear|publisher=Doubleday, Page & Co.|date=1907|edition=Digitized 25 April 2008}}</ref>

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