Roes Welcome Sound Explained
| Roes Welcome Sound |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Nunavut |
| Coords: | 65.0167°N -126°W |
| Countries: | Canada |
| Cities: | Uninhabited |
Roes Welcome Sound is a long channel at the northwest end of Hudson Bay in the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada between the mainland on the west and Southampton Island on the east. It opens south into Hudson Bay. Its north end joins Repulse Bay which is connected east through Frozen Strait to Foxe Basin, thereby making Southampton Island an island. Wager Bay is a western branch. It is situated north of Marble Island.[1] Roes Welcome Sound measures long, and wide.[2]
In 1613 it was reached by Thomas Button who called it 'Ne Ultra'. It is named after Sir Thomas Roe, friend and sponsor of explorer Luke Foxe's 1631 Arctic voyage.[3] [4] Captain William Edward Parry, trying to find the Northwest Passage during his 1821 voyage, wrote:[5]
Roes Welcome Sound is a bowhead whale migratory path.[6]
Climate
Naujaat to the north has a tundra climate (Köppen ET) with short but cool summers and long, cold winters.
Notes and References
- Web site: Marble Island, experience the mystery . 2008-04-09 . marbleisland.ca.
- Web site: Roes Welcome Sound . 2008-04-09 . The Columbia Gazetteer of North America . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050510193903/http://bartleby.com/69/72/R03972.html . 2005-05-10 .
- Web site: Thomas James and Luke Foxe . 2008-04-09 . princeton.edu.
- Web site: JSTOR: The History of American Ornithology before Audubon . 2008-04-09 .
- Book: Smucker, Samuel Mosheim . Arctic explorations and discoveries during the nineteenth century. Being detailed accounts of the several expeditions to the north seas, both English and American, conducted by Ross, Parry, Back, Franklin, M'Clure, Dr. Kane, and others, including the long and fruitless efforts and failures in search of Sir John Franklin. Ed. and completed to 1855 . Roe's welcome. . Allison, W.L. . 1886 . J.W. Lovell . New York . 9780665169755 . 1580359.
- Distribution, Migration, and Depletion of Bowhead Whales in Hudson Bay, 1860 to 1915 . Ross . W.G. . 1974 . JSTOR . Arctic and Alpine Research . 6 . 85–98 . 10.2307/1550373 . 1 . 1550373.
