Resolute Bay

This article is about the body of water. For the community, see Resolute, Nunavut.

Resolute Bay is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. Named after the Arctic exploration vessel HMS Resolute, it is located in Parry Channel^map on the southern side of Cornwallis Island.^map The hamlet of Resolute^map is located on the northern shore of the bay with Resolute Bay Airport^map to the northwest. The Inuit associated with Resolute Bay are called Qausuittuq and the population of the hamlet in the 2021 census was 183.

Resolute Bay
Looking west along the edge of Resolute Bay.
Resolute Bay
Location	Parry Channel
Coordinates	74°41′N 094°50′W
Ocean/sea sources	Arctic Ocean
Basin countries	Canada
Settlements	Resolute

On the western shore, the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE) and the Communications Research Centre Canada operated a launch site for sounding rockets.^map Between 1966 and 1971 rockets of the types Black Brant and Boosted Arcas were launched.

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  Orthographic projection centred over Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada.
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  Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada - Lambert Projection.
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  Resolute Bay: View from Signal Hill to the Inuit-Settlement "Village" and to Resolute Passage (August 1997)
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  Another view over Resolute Bay to the Inuit Settlement "Village" (August 1997)

A small hut built some 600 years ago by the Thule people, ancestors of the Inuit, near the hamlet of Resolute it was restored by archaeologists.

Further reading

• Bremner, Peter C. Diamond Drilling in Permafrost at Resolute Bay, Northwest Territories. Publications of the Dominion Observatory (Ottawa), v. 16, no. 12. Ottawa: Edmond Cloutier, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, 1955.
• Canada, and F. C. Plet. Q-Indices of Magnetic Activity at Resolute Bay, Baker Lake, and Yellowknife Magnetic Observatories for Selected Days of the International Geophysical Year. Publications of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, v.27, no. 4. 1963.
• Higdon, Jeff W., and Stefan Romberg. 2006. "Observations of Juvenile Ivory Gulls (Pagophila Eburnea) in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada, August 2005". Polar Record. 42, no. 2: 170-172.
• Hocking, W K. 2001. "Special Section: Early Polar Cap Observatory - Middle Atmosphere Dynamical Studies at Resolute Bay Over a Full Representative Year: Mean Winds, Tides, and Special Oscillations (Paper 2000RS001003)". Radio Science. 36, no. 6: 1795.
• Hodges, J. C., and Howard Francis Bates. The Polar Auroral Radar System McMurdo Base, Antarctica and Resolute Bay, N.W.T., Canada. Menlo Park, Calif: Stanford Research Institute, 1975.
• Lund, Karen E. An Investigation of Cadmium and Lead from a High Arctic Waste Disposal Site, Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada. Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 2005. ISBN 0-612-99353-1
• Michel, Christine. Biological investigation of first-year sea ice near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, spring to early summer 2001. Winnipeg: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2003.
• Sauriol, Jacques. Channel Development and Fluvial Processes in Snow-Filled Valleys, Resolute Bay, N.W.T. Hamilton, Ont: McMaster University, 1978.
• Stocker, Zbigniew Stanislaw J. The Ecology of the Streams at Char Lake, Resolute Bay, North West Territories. Waterloo, Ont: University of Waterloo, Dept. of Biology, 1972.

Mapping

• ^ Parry Channel, 74°26′N 094°45′W
• ^ Cornwallis Island, 75°05′N 95°00′W
• ^ Resolute, 74°41′51″N 094°49′56″W

• ^ Resolute Bay Airport, 74°43′01″N 094°58′10″W
• ^ DRTE/CRC launch site, 74°41′N 094°54′W