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Frobisher Bay () is a relatively large inlet of the Labrador Sea in the southeastern corner of Baffin Island , Nunavut , Canada . Its length is about 230 km and its width varies from about 40 km at its outlet into the Labrador Sea to roughly 20 km towards its inner end. {Link without Title} The capital of Nunavut, Iqaluit (known as Frobisher Bay until 1987), lies near the innermost end of the Bay. Frobisher Bay has a tapered shape formed by two flanking Peninsula e, the Hall Peninsula to the northeast, and the Meta Incognita Peninsula to the southwest. The Bay's funnellike shape ensures that the Tidal variance at Iqaluit each day is about 7 to 11 m. This shape is due to the large Outlet Glacier centred over Foxe Basin during the Pleistocene Glaciation , which gouged the Bay's basin, now flooded by the sea. {Link without Title} Within Frobisher Bay itself are a number of bays, s on both shores, rising to roughly 330 m on the northeast shore, and twice that on the southwest shore as a result of the tilting of the Earth's Crust locally during the early Tertiary . {Link without Title} Frobisher Bay is also studded with Island s. These include Hill Island and Faris Island near Iqaluit, Pugh, Pike, Fletcher and Bruce Islands at the mouth of Wayne Bay, Augustus Island in Ward Inlet, and Chase, McLean, Gabriel and Nouyarn Islands towards the Bay's mouth. {Link without Title} Frobisher Bay is named for the English navigator Martin Frobisher , who, during his search for the Northwest Passage in 1576, became the first Europe an to visit it. Until 1861, the Bay was thought to be a Strait separating Baffin Island from another island. |
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