Beare Sound

Beare Sound
Coordinates	62°31′N 065°14′W / 62.517°N 65.233°W / 62.517; -65.233 (Beare Sound)Coordinates: 62°31′N 065°14′W / 62.517°N 65.233°W / 62.517; -65.233 (Beare Sound)
Basin countries	Canada

Settlements	uninhabited

Beare Sound (variant: Beares Sound)^[1] is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in eastern Frobisher Bay off the southern tip of Baffin Island's Blunt Peninsula.

Martin Frobisher named the sound after James Beare, principal surveyor of the 1577/78 Frobisher expedition.^[2]

References

↑ Brown, George Williams (1966). Dictionary of Canadian biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 85. ISBN 0-8020-3142-0.
↑ Shaw, N.; Greenfield, H.; Bates, H.W. (1843). The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. London: J. Murray. pp. 12, 16. OCLC 21468267.

Sounds of Nunavut

Kitikmeot Region	Larsen Melville Viscount Melville

Kivalliq Region	Roes Welcome

Qikiqtaaluk Region	Beare Clarke Cumberland Digges Eclipse Eureka Hassel Jones Lancaster Massey McDougall Nansen Oliver Peel Smith Tay

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