Beare Sound

Beare Sound
Beare Sound
	Beare Sound
Coordinates	62°31′N065°14′W / 62.517°N 65.233°W
Basin countries	Canada
Settlements	uninhabited

Last updated January 26, 2026

Beare Sound or Beares Sound^[1] is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in eastern Frobisher Bay off the southern tip of Baffin Island's Blunt Peninsula.

Martin Frobisher named the sound after James Beare, principal surveyor of the 1577/78 Frobisher expedition.^[2]

References

↑ Brown, George Williams (1966). Dictionary of Canadian biography . Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 85. ISBN 0-8020-3142-0. james beare frobisher.
↑ Shaw, N.; Greenfield, H.; Bates, H.W. (1843). The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. London: J. Murray. pp. 12, 16. OCLC 21468267.

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[1] Brown, George Williams (1966). Dictionary of Canadian biography . Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 85. ISBN 0-8020-3142-0. james beare frobisher.

[2] Shaw, N.; Greenfield, H.; Bates, H.W. (1843). The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. London: J. Murray. pp. 12, 16. OCLC 21468267.

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Beare Sound
Beare Sound
Coordinates	62°31′N065°14′W / 62.517°N 65.233°W / 62.517; -65.233 (Beare Sound)
Basin countries	Canada

Settlements	uninhabited