Comer Strait

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Coordinates: 65°45′00″N 85°04′59″W / 65.75, -85.08306 Comer Strait is a narrow waterway separating the northeastern tip of Southampton Island from the western shore of White Island in Nunavut's Foxe Basin. It is also the western entrance to the Duke of York Bay.[1]

Comer Strait is the namesake of American whaling captain George Comer.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Rowley, Graham (1996), Cold Comfort: My Love Affair With the Arctic, McGill-Queen's University Press, pp. 49, ISBN 0773513930, <http://books.google.com/books?id=2k_ZPx76uPQC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=%22Comer+Strait%22+&source=web&ots=fCfD2lKd1B&sig=K0JahnSZLd0nPgA5TE3NSTAy_FA&hl=en> 
  2. ^ Ross, W. Gillies, George Comer, ucalgary.ca, pp. 294-295, <http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic36-3-294.pdf>. Retrieved on 30 March 2008 
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