Burnett Bay

Burnett Bay is a Canadian Arctic waterway in the Northwest Territories. It is an eastern arm of the Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Sea on northwestern Banks Island. Robillard Island, Norway Island, and Bernard Island lie in a semicircle outside the bay's mouth. The bay was named for William Burnett, Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy, by Robert McClure during the McClure Arctic Expedition.^[1]

References

↑ Gazetteer of the Northwest Territories

Coordinates: 73°45′N 123°00′W / 73.750°N 123.000°W / 73.750; -123.000

Hydrography of the Northwest Territories

Rivers	Arctic Red Back Coppermine Fond du Lac Great Bear Hay Horn Hornaday Kagloryuak Keele Kotaneelee Liard Mackenzie North Nahanni Peel Petitot Redstone Roscoe Slave South Nahanni Trout Yellowknife more...

Lakes	Artillery Aylmer Blackwater Boyd Buffalo Clinton-Colden Colville Faber Firedrake Frame Great Bear Great Slave Hottah Howard Kakisa Kasba Keller Lac Belot Lac de Gras Lac des bois (Northwest Territories) Lac La Martre Lynx MacKay Mosquito Napaktulik Nonacho Point Selwyn Snowbird Tahiryuak Tathlina Trout Tulemalu Wholdaia more...

Coastal features	Amundsen Gulf Beaufort Sea Dolphin and Union Strait Fitzwilliam Strait Hazen Strait Kellett Strait Liddon Gulf M'Clure Strait Minto Inlet Murray Inlet Prince of Wales Strait Richard Collinson Inlet Prince Albert Sound Wilkins Strait

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