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Wager Bay
Nunavuthamlet
Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Overview
Set in Nunavut, Canada, Wager Bay is recorded in open geodata as a hamlet. The settlement sits at 65.933°, -90.817°, a subarctic location in the northern hemisphere. Detailed population figures are not currently catalogued in the open data sources we track. Its latitude implies a climate characterised by short summers and long, very cold winters. Solar-resource estimates put the area at about 1,015 kWh/m² of solar irradiance per year with sunshine for roughly 40% of daylight hours. Additional figures on demographics, climate, geography and points of interest appear in the sections that follow, all drawn from open public datasets.
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History & geography
History
Wager Bay was first charted by Christopher Middleton during his Arctic explorations of 1742. He named it after Sir Charles Wager and was trapped in the bay for three weeks until the ice cleared in Roes Welcome Sound. In 1747, William Moor sent boat parties to the head of the bay.
Geography
The bay is a long inlet stretching through tundra; its shoreline measures in length. The elevation is above mean sea level. It drains an area of , through numerous small rivers, including the Brown River and Sila River. North Lake, South Lake, Brown Lake, and Ford Lake are nearby.
Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).
Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
Climate
Air quality
Walkability
Amenities nearby
Wildlife & biodiversity
Earthquake history
Most recent
- M 3.9 — 2017-10-15283 km N of Rankin Inlet, Canada
- M 4 — 2006-11-30Nunavut, Canada
Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).
Photos
Sights & places nearby
Notable people from here
Nearby places in Nunavut
- Repulse Bay133.9 mi away
- ᓇᐅᔮᑦ Naujaat134.1 mi away · pop. 1,082
- ᐃᒡᓗᓕᒑᕐᔪᒃ Chesterfield Inlet179.2 mi away · pop. 360
- ᑰᒑᕐᔪᒃ Kugaaruk181.7 mi away · pop. 500
- ᖃᒪᓂᑦᑐᐊᖅ Baker Lake187.9 mi away
- ᑲᖏᕿᓂᖅ Rankin Inlet219.6 mi away · pop. 2,577
- ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ Gjoa Haven229.7 mi away · pop. 900
- ᓴᓪᓕᖅ Coral Harbour255.1 mi away · pop. 834
- ᑕᓗᕐᔪᐊᕐᒃ Taloyoak258.8 mi away · pop. 500
- ᑎᑭᕋᕐᔪᐊᖅ Whale Cove265.2 mi away · pop. 350
- Tavani275.9 mi away
- ᓴᓂᕋᔭᒃ Sanirajak321.7 mi away · pop. 848
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
Nearby airports
Public attention
Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.
Books about Wager Bay
Search results from Open Library.
Recent natural events nearby
Ground air-quality sensors
Recently spotted species
Events
Gallery
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • USGS Earthquake Catalog (global feed)
- • GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library