Cuming Inlet

Cuming Inlet is a body of water in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It lies off the southern coast of Devon Island in the eastern high Arctic. Like Stratton Inlet, Burnett Inlet, Hobhouse Inlet, and Powell Inlet, Cuming Inlet is situated between Maxwell Bay and Croker Bay, north of Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait.

It was named by William Edward Parry in honor of Francis Brooking Cuming.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ "Northwest Territories". ianlogan.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
↑ Gardner, Charles Kitchell (1822). The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review 4 (Digitized Feb 26, 2007 ed.). Wiley and Halsted. p. 66.

Cuming Inlet, Nunavut at Atlas of Canada

Coordinates: 74°34′59″N 085°00′00″W / 74.58306°N 85.00000°W / 74.58306; -85.00000 (Cuming Inlet)

Inlets of Nunavut

Kitikmeot Region	Bathurst Chantrey

Kivalliq Region	Chesterfield

Qikiqtaaluk Region	Admiralty Balcom Barrier Berlinguet Bond Burnett Clyde Coutts Crooks Cuming Elwin Erskine Griffin Hobhouse Hoppner Irvine Jackson Levasseur Milne Moffet Navy Board Pell Powell Prince Regent Robert Peel Scott Shaftesbury Steensby Stratton Ward Wight Wiswell

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