Garnet Bay

Coordinates: 65°18′N 75°22′W / 65.30°N 75.36°W / 65.30; -75.36 (Garnet Bay)
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Garnet Bay
Garnet Bay is located in Nunavut
Garnet Bay
Garnet Bay
LocationFoxe Basin
Coordinates65°18′N 75°22′W / 65.30°N 75.36°W / 65.30; -75.36 (Garnet Bay)
Basin countriesCanada
SettlementsUninhabited

Garnet Bay is an arm of the

Cape Dorset, situated 137 km (85 mi) to the south,[1] while Nuwata
, a former settlement, is situated to the west.

Avifauna

The bay has a 4 km (2.5 mi) wide lesser snow goose nesting area.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Garnet Bay". travelingluck: travelingluck.com. Retrieved 2009-09-28.
  2. ^ Kerbes, R.H.; K.M.Meeres; R.T. Alisauskas; F.D. Caswell; K.F. Abraham; R.K. Ross (2006). "Surveys of Nesting Mid-continent Lesser Snow Geese and Ross's Geese in Eastern and Central Arctic Canada, 1997-98". Technical Report Series (447). Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Canadian Wildlife Service.