Foxe Basin

American  

noun

1. an ocean passage in Nunavut Territory, Canada, connected with Hudson Bay by the Foxe Channel.

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Foxe Basin British  

/ fɒks /

noun

1. an arm of the Atlantic in NE Canada, between Melville Peninsula and Baffin Island

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Example Sentences

Snow geese nest in the far north Arctic area of North Foxe Basin and Central Baffin Island north to Ellesmere Island and into northwest Greenland.

From Washington Times • Feb. 20, 2016

Kahru said the impacted zones cover roughly 1 million square kilometers, including portions of the Foxe Basin and the Baffin Sea, which belong to Canada, and the Kara Sea north of Russia.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2011

The R.C.A.F. announced that a survey party, flying low over the vast, frigid Foxe Basin in the Arctic Ocean, had rediscovered the Spicer Islands, first found by a Massachusetts whaler in 1897 and then "lost."

From Time Magazine Archive