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Resolute Bay is an
File:Orthographic projection centred over Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada.png, Orthographic projection centred over Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada.
File:Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada - Lambert Projection.png, Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada - Lambert Projection.
File:Resolute Bay 1 1997-08-02.jpg, Resolute Bay: View from Signal Hill to the Inuit-Settlement "Village" and to Resolute Passage (August 1997)
File:Resolute Bay 2 1997-08-02.jpg, Another view over Resolute Bay to the Inuit Settlement "Village" (August 1997)
Arctic
The Arctic (; . ) is the polar regions of Earth, polar region of Earth that surrounds the North Pole, lying within the Arctic Circle. The Arctic region, from the IERS Reference Meridian travelling east, consists of parts of northern Norway ( ...
waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region
The Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtani Region (Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ ) or the Baffin Region is the easternmost, northernmost, and southernmost administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. Qikiqtaaluk is the traditional Inuktitut nam ...
, Nunavut
Nunavut is the largest and northernmost Provinces and territories of Canada#Territories, territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the ''Nunavut Act'' and the Nunavut Land Claims Agr ...
, Canada. Named after the Arctic exploration vessel , it is located in Parry Channel
The Parry Channel (, ) is a natural waterway through the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Its eastern two-thirds lie in the territory of Nunavut, while its western third (west of 110° West) lies in the Northwest Territories. It runs east to ...
on the southern side of Cornwallis Island. The hamlet of Resolute is located on the northern shore of the bay with Resolute Bay Airport to the northwest. The Inuit
Inuit (singular: Inuk) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwe ...
associated with Resolute Bay are called ''Qausuittuq'' and the population of the hamlet in the 2021 census was 183.
On the western shore, the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE) and the Communications Research Centre Canada operated a launch site for sounding rocket
A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket or a suborbital rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight. The rockets are often ...
s. Between 1966 and 1971 rockets of the types Black Brant
The brant or brent goose (''Branta bernicla'') is a small goose of the genus ''Branta''. There are three subspecies, all of which winter along temperate-zone sea-coasts and breed on the high-Arctic tundra.
The Brent oilfield was named after t ...
and Boosted Arcas were launched.
References
Further reading
* Bremner, Peter C. ''Diamond Drilling in Permafrost at Resolute Bay, Northwest Territories''. Publications of the Dominion Observatory (Ottawa), v. 16, no. 12. Ottawa: Edmond Cloutier, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, 1955. * Canada, and F. C. Plet. ''Q-Indices of Magnetic Activity at Resolute Bay, Baker Lake, and Yellowknife Magnetic Observatories for Selected Days of the International Geophysical Year''. Publications of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, v.27, no. 4. 1963. * Higdon, Jeff W., and Stefan Romberg. 2006. "Observations of Juvenile Ivory Gulls (Pagophila Eburnea) in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada, August 2005". ''Polar Record
''Polar Record'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of Arctic and Antarctic exploration and research. It is managed by the Scott Polar Research Institute and published by Cambridge University Press. The journal was ...
''. 42, no. 2: 170-172.
* Hocking, W K. 2001. "Special Section: Early Polar Cap Observatory - Middle Atmosphere Dynamical Studies at Resolute Bay Over a Full Representative Year: Mean Winds, Tides, and Special Oscillations (Paper 2000RS001003)". ''Radio Science''. 36, no. 6: 1795.
* Hodges, J. C., and Howard Francis Bates. ''The Polar Auroral Radar System McMurdo Base, Antarctica and Resolute Bay, N.W.T., Canada''. Menlo Park, Calif: Stanford Research Institute, 1975.
* Lund, Karen E. ''An Investigation of Cadmium and Lead from a High Arctic Waste Disposal Site, Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada''. Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 2005.
* Michel, Christine. ''Biological investigation of first-year sea ice near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, spring to early summer 2001''. Winnipeg: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2003.
* Sauriol, Jacques. ''Channel Development and Fluvial Processes in Snow-Filled Valleys, Resolute Bay, N.W.T''. Hamilton, Ont: McMaster University, 1978.
* Stocker, Zbigniew Stanislaw J. ''The Ecology of the Streams at Char Lake, Resolute Bay, North West Territories''. Waterloo, Ont: University of Waterloo, Dept. of Biology, 1972.
Mapping
*Parry Channel, *Cornwallis Island, *Resolute, *Resolute Bay Airport, *DRTE/CRC launch site, {{Spaceport Bays of Qikiqtaaluk Region Spaceports