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
edit- ^ "Northwest Territories". ianlogan.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-12-03. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
- ^ Gardner, Charles Kitchell (1822). The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review. Vol. 4 (Digitized Feb 26, 2007 ed.). Wiley and Halsted. p. 66.
74°34′59″N 085°00′00″W / 74.58306°N 85.00000°W
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