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Frobisher Bay

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Frobisher Bay
An arm of the Atlantic Ocean extending into southeast Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. It was discovered by Martin Frobisher in 1576 and until 1860 was thought to be a strait separating Baffin Island from another island.


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In 1979, he was elected bishop suffragan (assistant) of the Arctic and lived for a time in Iqaluit, then called Frobisher Bay, now the capital of Nunavut.
In January 2004, Watt-Cloutier sent me an e-mail from Baffin Island: Frobisher Bay had just frozen over for the season at a record late date.
In Iqaluit (pronounced "Eehalooeet"), a warm, desiccating westerly wind raises whitecaps on nearby Frobisher Bay and rustles carpets of purple saxifrage flowers as people emerge from their overheated houses (which have been built to absorb every scrap of passive solar energy) with ice cubes wrapped in hand towels.
 
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