Beare Sound Explained

Beare Sound
Coords:	62.5167°N -79°W
Pushpin Map:	Canada Nunavut
Countries:	Canada
Cities:	uninhabited

Beare Sound or Beares Sound^[1] is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in eastern Frobisher Bay off the southern tip of Baffin Island's Blunt Peninsula.

Martin Frobisher named the sound after James Beare, principal surveyor of the 1577/78 Frobisher expedition.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Book: Brown, George Williams . Dictionary of Canadian biography . 1966 . University of Toronto Press . Toronto . 0-8020-3142-0 . registration . james beare frobisher. . 85.
2. Book: Shaw, N. . The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society . Greenfield, H. . Bates, H.W. . 1843 . J. Murray . London . 21468267 . 12, 16.