- Beare Sound
Beare Sound (sometimes Beares Sound) [cite book |title=Dictionary of Canadian biography |last=Brown |first=George Williams |year=1966 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Toronto |isbn=0802031420 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=TNWKZBRZEwAC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=%22james+beare%22+frobisher&source=web&ots=a_ZtgK06XO&sig=Mj-ffrB7z110gm8DiJ_BGJJP6N8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result |pages=85] is an
Arctic waterway in Northern Canada's territory ofNunavut . It's located in easternFrobisher Bay off the southern tip ofBaffin Island 'sBlunt Peninsula .Martin Frobisher named the sound afterJames Beare , principal surveyor of the 1577/78 Frobisher expedition. [cite book |title=The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society |last=Shaw |first=N. |coauthors=Greenfield, H. & Bates, H.W. |year=1843 |publisher=J. Murray |location=London |isbn= |url= |oclc= 21468267 |pages=12, 16]References
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