Chantrey Inlet

The Chantrey Inlet ( Tariunnuaq ) is a bay on the north coast of North America in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It has a length of about 110 km and reaches a width of 40 km. The Chantrey Inlet opens in the north to the Rasmussen Basin. The north-western shore of the bay is part of the Adelaide Peninsula. The King William Iceland is located northwest of the entrance of the bay.

The most important tributary is the Back River, whose mouth is located at the southern end of the bay. The Montreal Iceland precedes the west coast of the bay.

The Chantrey Inlet is a historic territory Utkuhiksalik ( " people's lives where there are soapstone " ), nomadic Inuit who live in igloos in the winter and in the summer in tents. This feed outweigh of American lake trout, lake trout, Coregonus nasus and caribou. Between 1833-1835 explored and mapped Captain George Back to Back River to Chantrey Inlet. Captain John Franklin and Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson of the Hudson's Bay Company undertook follow-up expeditions in the years 1837-1839.

Today, get fishing tourists by bush plane to Chantrey Inlet.

  • Bay in Canada
  • Bay in North America
  • Bay ( Arctic Ocean)
  • Geography ( Nunavut )
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