Chantrey Inlet

Chantrey Inlet

The Back River reaches the Arctic Ocean at Chantrey Inlet (Tariunnuaq)[1] on the east side of Adelaide Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada. Montreal Island is contained within the Inlet, while King William Island shelters the Inlet. It is 100 mi (160 km) long and 50 mi (80 km) wide at its mouth. Hayes River is directly to the north of the Inlet.[2]

Chantrey Inlet is the historical territory of the Utkuhiksalik (the people of the place where there is soapstone), nomadic Inuit who lived in snowhouses (igloos) in the winter, tents in the summer, and whose diet centered on trout (lake trout and arctic char), whitefish, and caribou. In 1833–35, Captain George Back discovered and mapped the Back River to Chantrey Inlet. Captain John Franklin and Hudson's Bay Company employees Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson made follow-up trips in 1837–39. In the present day, sportsmen arrive in Chantrey Inlet by chartered bushplane for fishing.[3][4]

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Coordinates: 67°16′00″N 095°14′59″W / 67.2666667°N 95.24972°W / 67.2666667; -95.24972 (Chantrey Inlet)



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