Eqe Bay

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Eqe Bay
Eqe Bay is located in Nunavut
Eqe Bay
Eqe Bay
LocationFoxe Basin
Coordinates69°40′N 76°25′W / 69.667°N 76.417°W / 69.667; -76.417 (Eqe Bay)
Basin countriesCanada
SettlementsUninhabited

Eqe Bay is an irregularly shaped, uninhabited waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on the western coast of north-central Baffin Island. An arm of the Foxe Basin, it contains no islands within it, but Bray Island lies outside the mouth of the bay to the south.

Geology[edit]

The bay is within the northeastern Rae craton.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Bethune, K.; Scammel, R. (August 2003). "Geology, geochronology, and geochemistry of Archean rocks in the Eqe Bay area, north-central Baffin Island, Canada: constraints on the depositional and tectonic history of the Mary River Group of northeastern Rae Province". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. doi:10.1139/e03-028. OCLC 89117854.