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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Foxe Basin
- Type: Channel
- Description: large bay north of Hudson Bay in Nunavut, Canada
- Categories: strait and body of water
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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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: “Foxe Oan”
- Chinese: “福克斯湾”
- Chinese: “福克斯灣”
- Croatian: “Foxe Basin”
- Croatian: “Foxe”
- Czech: “Foxův bazén”
- Czech: “Foxův záliv”
- Danish: “Foxe Basin”
- Dutch: “Foxe Basin”
- Dutch: “Foxebekken”
- Estonian: “Foxe’i laht”
- Estonian: “Foxe’i meri”
- Estonian: “Foxei laht”
- French: “bassin de Foxe”
- French: “Bassin de Foxe”
- Galician: “conca de Foxe”
- German: “Foxe Basin”
- German: “Foxebecken”
- Hebrew: “אגן פוקס”
- Hungarian: “Foxe-medence”
- Icelandic: “Foxe-dældin”
- Indonesian: “Cekungan Foxe”
- Italian: “Bacino di Foxe”
- Italian: “Bacino Foxe”
- Italian: “Foxe Basin”
- 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-Бейсин”
- Russian: “Фокс”
- Russian: “Фокса бассейн”
- Serbian: “Foks”
- Serbian: “Фокс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Foxeov zaljev”
- Slovak: “Foxov záliv”
- Spanish: “Cuenca Foxe”
- Spanish: “Foxe Basin”
- Swahili: “Beseni la Foxe”
- Swedish: “Foxe Basin”
- Ukrainian: “Фокс”
- Venetian: “Conca Foxe”
- Vietnamese: “bồn địa Foxe”
- Vietnamese: “lòng chảo Foxe”
- Vietnamese: “lưu vực Foxe”
- Vietnamese: “vịnh Foxe”
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