Frobisher Bay

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Nunavut's main town, Iqaluit (known until 1987 as Frobisher Bay), is located at the inner end of the bay. The Frobisher Bay is also littered with small islets. This includes Hill Island and Faris Island at Iqaluit, Pugh, Pike, Fletcher and Bruce Island at the estuary of Wayne Bay, Augustus Island at Ward Inlet and Chase, McLean, Gabriel and Nouyarn Island at the estuary of Bay.

Hondius map showing the Frobisher "Strait", which halves South Greenland. Frobish Bay is called after the English sailor Sir Martin Frobisher, who was the first Europeans to come there in 1576 in his quest for the Northwest Passage. Up until Hall's journey in 1861[2], the bay was regarded by Europeans as a narrow sea that separated Baffin Iceland from another isle.

"FROBISH ER BAY" is a James Gordon track that can be heard on the TV show Canadian Idol. FROBISH Bay is prominent in the Stompin' Tom track "The Ballad Of Muk Tuk Annie" from the same named record. "dendrochronological study of the origin of driftwood in Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, N.W.T., Canada".

Grainger, E. H. The Food of Ice Fauna and Zooplankton in Frobisher Bay. Mallon, S.T. Inuktitut, Frobisher Bay version. Interaction, adaptation and cultural change in the Frobisher Bay Dorset Society, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. Frobisher Bay upper Ordovician fauna, Baffin Land.

Frobish Bay

The general physiology of the bay is the fruit of tectonical incidents related to the rupture of the North Atlantic in the early Tertiary, during which the part of the Precambrian shield in Frobisher Bay fell and the boulders on both sides were raised and inclined to the north-east.

A sudden impact between these entities is characterized by the high rocks protruding from the bay, which are 330 meters high on the northern bank and twice as high on the southern bank due to their inclination. During the Pleistocene glaciering, an over-deepening took place when the Frobisher Bay cave was refilled by a large exit from the Icecap above the FOXE BASIN.

This bay is called after Sir Martin FROBISHER, who found it in 1576. The bay was thought to be a narrow sea and first appears on a map as Frobisher Str. Only in 1861 was the real character of his Physiographie revealed, when the American Charles Francis HALL investigated the area.