Four Rivers Bay

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Four Rivers Bay
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Four Rivers Bay
Location Peel Sound
Coordinates 72°44′59″N95°37′0″W / 72.74972°N 95.61667°W / 72.74972; -95.61667 (Four Rivers Bay)
Basin  countries Canada
SettlementsUninhabited

Four Rivers Bay is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Peel Sound on the western side of Somerset Island. It is immediately west of the permanently frozen Stanwell-Fletcher Lake. [1]

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References

  1. Coakley, John P. (1968). "History and Bottom Sediments of Stanwell-Fletcher Lake". p. 27. Retrieved 2009-01-17.