Comer Strait

Comer Strait is a narrow waterway separating the northeastern tip of Southampton Island from the western shore of White Island in Nunavut's Foxe Basin. It is also the western entrance to the Duke of York Bay.^[1]

Comer Strait was named for American whaling captain George Comer.^[2]

References

↑ Rowley, Graham (1996), Cold Comfort: My Love Affair With the Arctic, McGill-Queen's University Press, p. 49, ISBN 0-7735-1393-0, retrieved 2008-04-04
↑ Ross, W. Gillies (1984), "George Comer" (PDF), Arctic Profiles (ucalgary.ca), pp. 294–295, ISBN 0-8020-5618-0, retrieved 2008-03-30

Coordinates: 65°45′00″N 085°04′59″W / 65.75000°N 85.08306°W / 65.75000; -85.08306 (Comer Strait)

Straits of Nunavut

Kitikmeot Region	Alexandra Bellot Dease Dolphin and Union Franklin James Ross Rae Simpson Victoria Wellington

Kivalliq Region	Comer Evans Fisher Frozen

Qikiqtaaluk Region	Arnott Barrow Bellot Boyer Cardigan Crozier Danish Davis Desbarats Fury and Hecla Glacier Hall Hazen Hendriksen Hoppner Hudson Lady Ann Maclean Nares Pearse Penny Pullen Rice Sir William Parker Wilkins

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