Foxe Basin
Sign in to savelarge bay north of Hudson Bay in Nunavut, Canada
Key facts
- Location
- South of Baffin Island , Nunavut
- Type
- Bay
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- Area
- 112800
- Image
- Foxe.jpg
- Width
- 450
- Length
- 600
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- Foxe Basin
- vertical depth
- 90
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Foxe Basin is a shallow oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula. For most of the year, it is blocked by sea ice (fast ice) and drift ice made up of multiple ice floes.
The nutrient-rich cold waters found in the basin are especially favourable to phytoplankton and the numerous islands within it are important bird habitats, including Sabine's gulls and many types of shorebirds. Bowhead whales migrate to the northern part of the basin each summer.
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