Clarke Sound

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Clarke Sound
Coordinates 68°35′N074°30′W / 68.583°N 74.500°W / 68.583; -74.500 (Clarke Sound) Coordinates: 68°35′N074°30′W / 68.583°N 74.500°W / 68.583; -74.500 (Clarke Sound)
Basin  countries Canada
SettlementsUninhabited

Clarke Sound is an uninhabited Foxe Basin waterway in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It is located between North Tweedsmuir Island and Baffin Island.

The sound was named after Louis Colville Gray Clarke, curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

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