Piling Bay

Piling Bay
Location Foxe Basin
Countries Canada

Piling Bay is an uninhabited waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on the west central coast of Baffin Island. An arm of the Foxe Basin, it contains many small, un-named islands. Foley Island and North Tweedsmuir Island lie outside the mouth of the bay to the south/southwest.

Nearby is Angaku'habvik, the Inuit shaman's initiation site.

History

In 1911, the German ornithologist, Bernhard Hantzsch, explored the area of Piling Bay.[1]

References

  1. ^ Beals, Carlyle Smith (1968). Science, history and Hudson Bay. 1 (Digitized Feb 19, 2009 ed.). Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources. pp. 117. http://books.google.com/books?id=xLLRAAAAMAAJ&q=%22piling+bay%22&dq=%22piling+bay%22&client=firefox-a.