Eqe Bay

Eqe Bay
Location	Foxe Basin
Coordinates	69°40′N 76°25′W / 69.667°N 76.417°W / 69.667; -76.417 (Eqe Bay)Coordinates: 69°40′N 76°25′W / 69.667°N 76.417°W / 69.667; -76.417 (Eqe Bay)
Basin countries	Canada

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

The bay is within the northeastern Rae craton.^[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.

Bays of Nunavut

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