Waterway in Nunavut
Comer Strait is a narrow waterway separating the northeastern tip of
Southampton Island from the western shore of
White Island in
Nunavut's
Foxe Basin. It is also the western entrance to the
Duke of York Bay.
[1]
Comer Strait was named for American
whaling captain
George Comer.
[2]
References
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^ Rowley, Graham (1996),
Cold Comfort: My Love Affair With the Arctic, McGill-Queen's University Press, p. 49,
ISBN
0-7735-1393-0, retrieved 2008-04-04
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^ Ross, W. Gillies (1984),
"George Comer", Arctic Profiles, ucalgary.ca, pp.
294–295,
ISBN
0-8020-5618-0, retrieved 2008-03-30
65°45′00″N 085°04′59″W / 65.75000°N 85.08306°W / 65.75000; -85.08306 (Comer Strait)