Roes Welcome Sound

Roes Welcome Sound is an Arctic Ocean waterway located in Nunavut's Foxe Basin. It opens north to Repulse Bay, and is located between the mainland and Southampton Island, convert|200|km|mi|abbr=on north of Marble Island. [cite web |url=http://www.marbleisland.ca/history03.html |title=Marble Island, experience the mystery |accessdate=2008-04-09 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=marbleisland.ca] Roes Welcome Sound measures convert|290|km|mi|abbr=on long, and convert|24|km|mi|abbr=on to convert|113|km|mi|abbr=on wide. [cite web |url=http://www.bartleby.com/69/72/R03972.html |title=Roes Welcome Sound |accessdate=2008-04-09 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date=2000 |work= |publisher=The Columbia Gazetteer of North America]

It is named after Sir Thomas Roe, friend and sponsor of explorer Luke Fox's 1631 Arctic voyage. [cite web |url=http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/northwest-passage/james-foxe.htm |title=Thomas James and Luke Foxe |accessdate=2008-04-09 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=princeton.edu] [cite web |url=http://www.google.com/search?q=Since+Fox+penetrated+to+the+western+part+of+Hudson+Bay%2C+discovering+the+strait+and+shore+known+as+%22Sir+Thomas+Roe%27s+%281581+%3F-1644%29+Welcome%2C%22+it+seems+likely+...&btnG=Search&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=Qg4 |title=JSTOR: The History of American Ornithology before Audubon |accessdate=2008-04-09 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=] Capt. Parry, trying to find the Northwest Passage during his 1821 voyage, wrote: [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=aJEBAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Roe's+welcome%22&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 |title=Arctic explorations and discoveries during the nineteenth century. Being detailed accounts of the several expeditions to the north seas, both English and American, conducted by Ross, Parry, Back, Franklin, M'Clure, Dr. Kane, and others, including the long and fruitless efforts and failures in search of Sir John Franklin. Ed. and completed to 1855 |last=Smucker |first=Samuel Mosheim |authorlink= |coauthors=Allison, W.L. |year=1886 |publisher=J.W. Lovell |location=New York |oclc=1580359]

"On an inspection of the charts, I think it will also appear probable that a communication will one day be found to exist between this inlet (Prince Regent's) and Hudson's Bay, either through the broad and unexplored channel called Sir Thomas Roe's Welcome, or through Repulse Bay, which has not yet been satisfactorily examined."

Roes Welcome Sound is a bowhead whale migratory path, discussed in W. Gillies Ross' 1974 published paper, "Distribution, Migration, and Depletion of Bowhead Whales in Hudson Bay, 1860 to 1915". [cite journal |title=Distribution, Migration, and Depletion of Bowhead Whales in Hudson Bay, 1860 to 1915 |url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/1550373 |last=Ross |first=W.G. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1974 |publisher= JSTOR |location= |journal=Arctic and Alpine Research |volume=6 |number=1 |pages=85-98]

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