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Coronation Gulf

a gulf in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is bounded by the coast of the continent on the south and west and by the southern coast of Victoria Island on the north. Dease Strait and Dolphin and Union Strait connect Coronation Gulf with Queen Maud Gulf on the east and Amundsen Gulf on the west, respectively. The southern coast of the gulf is high and rocky; the northwestern is low-lying and swampy. Coronation Gulf is 14–180 m deep and has many small islands. The Coppermine and Rae rivers empty into it. The gulf is covered with ice from September to the end of June.

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This stream in which he stood was a feeder to the Coppermine River, which in turn flowed north and emptied into Coronation Gulf and the Arctic Ocean.

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Given current knowledge of the region, the route south of Victoria Island through Coronation Gulf seems the better one, since there are more subsistence resources in the form of caribou, ringed seal, and Arctic char.

The Pembroke site: Thule Inuit migrants on southern Victoria Island

His task was to transport a boat north from Fort McMurray for use on the Arctic coast in order to serve the 'Copper Eskimos' of the Coronation Gulf. Working between the Mackenzie Delta and Bathurst Inlet gave him a rare knowledge of the Inuit way of life and language.

W. H. B. Hoare, A Thelon Odyssey: Journal of a Barrenlander and Return to the Barrens

But in all parts where we have been, except in Coronation Gulf, they are fond of the berry known in Alaska as the "salmon berry," and elsewhere as the cloud berry (Rubus chamaemorus Linn.).' We were astonished, especially my Alaska Eskimo companions, when we found that some of the Coronation Gulf Eskimos lived among an abundance of these berries and had never thought of tasting them.

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During the two-week journey, from Coronation Gulf in north west Canada to Baffin Bay, the researchers encountered just one other vessel, another Canadian Coastguard ice breaker.

Thawing out secrets of the ice; Braving -25-C temperatures in the Arctic is all in a day's work for a Bangor scientist. Abbie Wightwick talks climate change and hungry bears with Dr Anna Pienkowski

Rounding the southern shoulder of Victoria Island, he passed through Coronation Gulf to present-day Amundsen Gulf, which opens to the Beaufort Sea.

The bearded one: it's not bringing down a musk ox that makes the hunt challenging--it's finding one

is a Canadian based exploration company with advanced mineral assets in various stages of development located in Guyana and the Coronation Gulf, Nunavut, Canada.

GOLD MINING PERMIT

The MI lies 500 km north of Yellowknife and 50 km south of the community of Kugluktuk, formerly known as Coppermine, on the Coronation Gulf (Figure 1).

The Muskox intrusion

They were collected at the northernmost edge of the boreal biome, except for the Orange-crowned Warbler and Dark-eyed Junco that were collected in the remote Coronation Gulf area, in the tundra.

The Canadian Arctic expedition 1913-18 and early advances in Arctic vertebrate zoology

have entered into an agreement whereby MSA will have the option to acquire a 50% undivided interest in Guyana Goldfields 262,500 acre Nunavut, Coronation Gulf Property, it was reported June 7.

MINING DEAL

Their good relations, combined with their complementary areas of interest and expertise--language and social and intellectual life on Beuchat's part, anthropometry and material culture on Jenness's--promised a productive collaboration in documenting the life of the Copper Inuit, then a little-known population thinly scattered around Coronation Gulf, east of the Mackenzie.

Henri Beuchat (1878-1914)