Macormick Bay

Macormick Bay
Macormick Bay
Location	Wellington Channel
Coordinates	75°22′N 92°23′W[1]
Ocean/sea sources	Arctic Ocean
Basin countries	Canada
Settlements	Uninhabited

Macormick Bay (alternate: McCormick Bay)[2] is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It lies off the southwestern coast of Devon Island in the eastern high Arctic. Like Baring Bay to the north, it is an arm of Wellington Channel.

It is named in honor of Dr. Robert McCormick, a British Royal Navy surgeo, explorer and naturalist who searched nearby for the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin.[3]

Geography

Macormick Bay's cliffs are characterized by Silurian limestone.[4]

Snowblind Bay on Cornwallis Island, to the west, has similar red strata beds.[5]

References

1. "Macormick Bay". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. August 24, 2024.
2. "Macormick bay". tageo.com. Retrieved June 10, 2009.
3. "Forlorn Hope". Fraser's Magazine. 49 (Digitized November 21, 2007). Longmans, Green, and Co.: 633 1854.
4. Canadian Pacific Railway Company (1941). "Agricultural and industrial progress in Canada". Digitized October 19, 2007. Dept. of Immigration and Colonization of the Canadian Pacific Railway. p. 140. Retrieved June 10, 2009.
5. Canada, Geological Survey of (1963). Memoir. Geological Survey of Canada (320 ed.). p. 125.