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Foxe Basin
Oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the bay in Nunavut, Canada. For the community in the Falkland Islands, see Fox Bay.
Foxe Basin is a shallow oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula. For most of the year, it is blocked by sea ice (fast ice) and drift ice made up of multiple ice floes.[3]
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Location | South of Baffin Island, Nunavut |
Coordinates | 65°55′50″N 77°55′10″W[1] |
Type | Bay |
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The nutrient-rich cold waters found in the basin are known to be especially favourable to phytoplankton and the numerous islands within it are important bird habitats, including Sabine's gulls and many types of shorebirds. Bowhead whales migrate to the northern part of the basin each summer.
The basin takes its name from the English explorer Luke Foxe who entered the lower part in 1631.[4]