Foxe Basin
Foxe Basin is a shallow oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula. For most of the year, it is blocked by sea ice and drift ice made up of multiple ice floes.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Channel
- Description: large bay north of Hudson Bay in Nunavut, Canada
- Also known as: “Bacino Foxe”, “Foxe’i meri”, “Foxův bazén”, “lòng chảo Foxe”, “lưu vực Foxe”, “vịnh Foxe”, “Фокс-Бейсин”, and “Фокса бассейн”
Foxe Basin
- Categories: strait and body of water
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
65.93141° or 65° 55′ 53″ north
Longitude
-77.91793° or 77° 55′ 5″ west
Open location code
97Q4W3JJ+HR
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Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Foxe Basin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حوض فوكس”
- Azerbaijani: “Foks körfəzi”
- Basque: “Foxe arroa”
- Basque: “Foxe Arroa”
- Bavarian: “Foxe Basin”
- Belarusian: “Заліў Фокса”
- Bosnian: “Foxov bazen”
- Bulgarian: “Фокс (залив)”
- Bulgarian: “Фокс”
- Catalan: “conca de Foxe”
- Catalan: “Conca de Foxe”
- Cebuano: “Foxe Basin”
- Chinese: “福克斯湾”
- Chinese: “福克斯灣”
- Croatian: “Foxe Basin”
- Croatian: “Foxe”
- Czech: “Foxův záliv”
- Danish: “Foxe Basin”
- Dutch: “Foxebekken”
- Estonian: “Foxe’i laht”
- Estonian: “Foxei laht”
- French: “bassin de Foxe”
- French: “Bassin de Foxe”
- Galician: “conca de Foxe”
- German: “Foxebecken”
- Hebrew: “אגן פוקס”
- Hungarian: “Foxe-medence”
- Icelandic: “Foxe-dældin”
- Indonesian: “Cekungan Foxe”
- Italian: “Bacino di Foxe”
- Japanese: “フォックス湾”
- Korean: “폭스만”
- Latvian: “Foksa baseins”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Foxe Oan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Foxesjøen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Foxesjøen”
- Norwegian: “Foxesjøen”
- Polish: “Basen Foxe’a”
- Polish: “Basen Foxea”
- Portuguese: “Bacia de Foxe”
- Romanian: “Bazinul Foxe”
- Russian: “Фокс”
- Serbian: “Foks”
- Serbian: “Фокс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Foxeov zaljev”
- Slovak: “Foxov záliv”
- Spanish: “Cuenca Foxe”
- Swahili: “Beseni la Foxe”
- Swedish: “Foxe Basin”
- Ukrainian: “Фокс”
- Venetian: “Conca Foxe”
- Vietnamese: “bồn địa Foxe”
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