Cuming Inlet Explained

Cuming Inlet is a body of water in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It lies off the southern coast of Devon Island in the eastern high Arctic. Like Stratton Inlet, Burnett Inlet, Hobhouse Inlet, and Powell Inlet, Cuming Inlet is situated between Maxwell Bay and Croker Bay, north of Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait.

It was named by William Edward Parry in honor of Francis Brooking Cuming.[1] [2]

References

74.5831°N -85°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Northwest Territories. ianlogan.co.uk. 2009-06-07. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091203141323/http://www.ianlogan.co.uk/brooking/brooking%20geography.htm. 2009-12-03.
  2. Book: Gardner, Charles Kitchell . The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review . Wiley and Halsted. 1822 . Digitized Feb 26, 2007. 4. 66.