Buchanan Bay

Buchanan Bay
Location	Nares Strait
Coordinates	78°58′07″N 75°10′47″W / 78.968576°N 75.179719°W / 78.968576; -75.179719 (Buchanan Bay)Coordinates: 78°58′07″N 75°10′47″W / 78.968576°N 75.179719°W / 78.968576; -75.179719 (Buchanan Bay)
Basin countries	Canada

Settlements	Uninhabited

Buchanan Bay is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Nares Strait by eastern Ellesmere Island. The bay is bordered by Cape Camperdown on Bache Peninsula to the north, Cape Rutherford on Johan Peninsula to the south, and the Alexandra Fiord at its head.

It is 40 mi (64 km) long, and up to 20 mi (32 km) wide.

Fauna

Muskox frequent the area.^[1]

↑ The American Magazine. 55 (Digitized Oct 20, 2005 ed.). Crowell-Collier Pub. Co. 1903. pp. 235, 238.

Bays of Nunavut

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Qikiqtaaluk Region	Allman Aston Augusta Bay Baffin Baillarge Baring Bartlett Batty Bere Bernier Birmingham Boatswain Bowman Brae Buchanan Cameron Copes Cory Creswell Croker Cumberland Sound Dampier De la Beche Dobbin Dorchester Duke of York Dyke Acland Eden Eetookashoo Eldridge Elwin Eqe Evans Finnie Flagler Four Rivers Foxe Basin Frobisher Garnet Gibson Graham Moore Half Moon Hall Basin Harkin Hecla and Griper Herschel Hudson Irene James Kane Kew Lady Franklin M'Clure Macormick Maxwell May Inlet Murray Maxwell Nabukjuak Napier Norwegian Okse Ommanney Paquet Peary Piling Pioneer Prince Alfred Princess Marie Purcell Radstock Reid Resolute Rosse Rutherford Sabine Sawyer Scoresby Shamrock Sherard Skene Stuart Triton Ungava Weatherall Woodward

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