{{Short description|Bay in Nunavut, Canada}} {{Use Canadian English|date=May 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox body of water | name= Terror Bay | native_name = {{native name list |tag1=iu-Cans|name1=ᐊᒥᑦᕈᖅ |tag2=iu-Latn|name2=Amitruq}} | image= | caption = | image_bathymetry = | caption_bathymetry = | pushpin_map = Canada Nunavut | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Nunavut | location= [[King William Island]] | coords= {{coord|68|52|N|98|57|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:500000|notes=<ref name=cgndb>{{Cite cgndb|OAQIM|Terror Bay|date=23 May 2024}}</ref>|name=Terror Bay|display=inline,title}} | rivers= | oceans= [[Arctic Ocean]] | countries= Canada | length= | width= | area= | cities= }} '''Terror Bay''' ({{langx|iu|ᐊᒥᑦᕈᖅ}}, {{lang|iu-Latn|Amitruq}})<ref>{{cite web|url=http://atlas.kitikmeotheritage.ca/index.html?module=module.names#eyJ0IjoieCIsImkiOiJiZjJkOWVjMGE5ZTRiN2Q1MmY3ODc5ZGMxMmQyYzc2ZiIsInMiOjE0NzU1NDMyMjU0MDJ9 |title=ᐊᒥᑦᕈᖅ, Amitruq, Bay at ''Kitikmeot Place Name Atlas''|publisher=Kitikmeot Heritage Society|access-date=23 May 2024}}</ref> is an [[Arctic]] waterway in the [[Kitikmeot Region]], [[Nunavut]], Canada. It is located on the southwestern side of [[King William Island]]. The entrance to the bay is marked by Fitzjames Island on the west and Irving Island to the east. The bay opens to [[Queen Maud Gulf]].
==Association with John Franklin== {{more|Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site}} The bay was one of a series of landmarks along the waters explored by [[John Franklin]] during his [[Franklin's lost expedition|lost expedition]] between 1845 and 1848.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://toponymes.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search?q=Terror&category=O&sort-field= |title=Terror land forms|publisher=[[Geographical Names Board of Canada]], [[Natural Resources Canada]]|access-date=23 May 2024|date=16 February 2021}}</ref> The bay has the same name as {{HMS|Terror|1813|6}}, one of the two ships of the expedition.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Weiss|first=Daniel|date=February 2017|title=Discovering Terror|url=https://archaeology.org/issues/online/collection/trenches-canada-hms-terror/|access-date=16 May 2021|website=Archaeology|publisher=[[Archaeological Institute of America]]}}</ref> The ships entered [[Baffin Bay]] in 1845 on their quest to find a [[Northwest Passage]], and were abandoned sometime in 1848.
Terror Bay was officially named by the [[Geographical Names Board of Canada]] in 1910.<ref name=cgndb/> [[Inuit]] oral history provided clues about the ships' demise, but the precise locations of the wrecks were not known for over 160 years.
In 2016, [[Arctic Research Foundation]] researchers on board the ''Martin Bergmann'' announced that they had found the wreck of HMS ''Terror'' in Terror Bay. They had been led there by a tip from [[Inuit|Inuk]] crewman Sammy Kogvik, from [[Gjoa Haven]], who reported seeing a mast protruding from the ice in Terror Bay during a hunting trip in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/hms-terror-wreck-found-arctic-nearly-170-years-northwest-passage-attempt |first1=Paul|last1=Watson|title=Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=12 September 2016|access-date=23 May 2024}}</ref> The wreck of the other ship of the lost expedition, [[HMS Erebus (1826)|HMS ''Erebus'']], had previously been found in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/65674hms_terror_franklins_second_ship_finally_found_in_nunavut/ |first1=Steve |last1=Ducharme|title=HMS Terror, Franklin's second ship, finally found in Nunavut|publisher=[[Nunatsiaq News]]|date=12 September 2016|access-date=23 May 2024}}</ref>
Following the rediscovery of the ''Terror'' and {{HMS|Erebus|1826|6}} the Nunavut Field Unit of [[Parks Canada]] restricted access to a rectangular area of the bay, as part of the [[Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site|Wrecks of HMS ''Erebus'' and HMS ''Terror'' National Historic Site]]. The area runs from Point E ({{coord|68|54|25.45|N|98|59|42.07|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody|name=point E}}) to Point F ({{coord|68|54|25.24|N|98|51|29.08|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody|name=point F}}) to Point G ({{coord|68|48|46.23|N|98|51|31.25|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody|name=point G}}) to Point H ({{coord|68|48|46.44|N|98|59|42.15|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody|name=point H}}).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/epaveswrecks/info/plan |title=Restricted area and activities in The Wrecks Of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site Of Canada|access-date=23 May 2024|date=22 March 2023}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Bays of Nunavut}}
[[Category:Bays of the Kitikmeot Region]] [[Category:Franklin's lost expedition]] [[Category:History of Nunavut]] [[Category:Maritime history of Canada]]