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Bay in Nunavut, Canada
Designations
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Official name
| Queen Maud Gulf
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Designated
| 24 May 1982
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Reference no.
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Queen Maud Gulf
lies between the northern coast of the mainland and the southeastern corner of
Victoria Island
in
Nunavut
, Canada. At its western end lies
Cambridge Bay
, leading to
Dease Strait
; to the east lies
Simpson Strait
; and to the north,
Victoria Strait
. It is home to the
Queen Maud Gulf Migratory Bird Sanctuary
.
History
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In 1839, it was crossed by
Peter Warren Dease
and
Thomas Simpson
. It was named by the
Norwegian
explorer
Roald Amundsen
in 1905 for the Norwegian queen
Maud of Wales
.
The wreck of
HMS
Erebus
from
Franklin's lost expedition
of 1845 to find the
Northwest Passage
was found in 2014. The wreck lies at the bottom of the eastern portion of Queen Maud Gulf, west of
O'Reilly Island
.
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Islands
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Islands in the Queen Maud Gulf include:
See also
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