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The Melville Peninsula is on the west side of Foxe Basin. Boothia and Melville Peninsulas, Nunavut, Canada. To the north of Melville Peninsula is Baffin Island. Melville Peninsula is a large peninsula in the Canadian Arctic north of Hudson Bay. To the east is Foxe Basin and to the west the Gulf of Boothia.
Melville Island [1] (French: île Melville [citation needed]; Inuktitut: ᐃᓗᓪᓕᖅ, Ilulliq [citation needed]) is an uninhabited member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands of the Arctic Archipelago. With an area of 42,149 km 2 (16,274 sq mi), it is the 33rd largest island in the world and Canada's eighth largest island.
The Spicer Islands are an uninhabited island group located in Foxe Basin, within Qikiqtaaluk Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. [1] The Melville Peninsula is to the west, Prince Charles Island to the east, Rowley Island to the north.
Boothia Peninsula and Melville Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada. Boothia Peninsula (/ ˈ b uː θ i ə /; formerly Boothia Felix, Inuktitut Kingngailap Nunanga) is a large peninsula in Nunavut's northern Canadian Arctic, south of Somerset Island. The northern part, Murchison Promontory, is the northernmost point of mainland Canada.
Map showing Fury and Hecla Strait, Nunavut, Canada, between Baffin Island to the north and the Melville Peninsula to the south. The settlement of Igloolik lies to the east. Fury and Hecla Strait is a narrow (from 2 to 20 km (1.2 to 12.4 mi) wide) Arctic seawater channel located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.
Melville Bay is delimited by Cape York in the northeast and Wilcox Head, the western promontory on Kiatassuaq Island in the south. [2] Some islands of the Upernavik Archipelago are in the Melville Bay area, such as Kiatassuaq Island, Kullorsuaq Island, Saarlia Island and Saqqarlersuaq Island. Melville Bay is free of fast ice between mid August ...
Frozen Strait is a waterway in Nunavut just north of Hudson Bay between the Melville Peninsula to the north and Southampton Island to the south. It connects Repulse Bay to the west with Foxe Basin to the east. The strait is 80 km (50 mi) long, and 19 to 32 km (12 to 20 miles) wide. [1] In 1615 Robert Bylot was blocked by ice at its east end
Location: Hecla and Griper Bay: ... Located off northern Melville Island's Sabine Peninsula, the bay is an arm of Hecla and Griper Bay. Eldridge Bay is to the north. [2]