Wager Bay

Wager Bay with Sila River

Map of Wager Bay in Ukkusiksalik National Park

Wager Bay is a bay in the northwest of Hudson Bay in Ukkusiksalik National Park.

It reaches in northwestern direction a maximum extension of 150 km. Its width varies from 3 km at the bay entrance, the Narrows, and up to 30 km in the central area. Access to the bay is flanked by Cape Dobbs and Cape Montague. At the end of the bay are the Reversing Falls. Behind it is the Lake Ford Lake, in which the Brown River flows. The bay is surrounded by steep cliffs that reach to the southwest heights of up to 290 m. In the east, the bay opens to the Roes Welcome Sound.

Was named the book in 1742 by the English navigator and a member of the Royal Society Christopher Middleton. He entered the first European, with his Bombard Furnace, in the fjord and was then held there for three weeks of drift ice. He named the bay after the then reigning First Lord of the British Admiralty, Sir Charles Wager.