Cumberland Sound
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Cumberland Sound (variants: Cumberland Straits; Hogarth Sound; Northumberland Inlet)[1] is a body of water between Baffin Island's Hall Peninsula and the Cumberland Peninsula in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It is approximately 250 km long and 80 km wide. It is home to the Cumberland Sound Beluga whale, an endangered species thought to reside year-round in the sound, with summers spent at the northern end. Orcas also use the sound.
Small islands litter the stretch of water which was formed from glacial activity and meltwater produced from the receding glacier.[citation needed]
The only settlement located on the shore of the sound on the Cumberland Peninsula is Pangnirtung.
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- ^ Kumlien, Ludwig (1879). Contributions to the natural history of Arctic America: made in connection with the Howgate Polar Expedition, 1877-78 (Digitized October 3, 2008 ed.). Govt. Printing Office. pp. 11. http://books.google.com/books?id=r_UtAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Ludwig+Kumlien%22&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=MztoxY-em_&sig=K-VH4Js2MA86iE4WtVBCnSonM7s#PPA11,M1.
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Coordinates: 65°13′N 65°45′W / 65.217°N 65.75°W
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