Franklin Bay
{{Short description|Bay in the Northwest Territories, Canada}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=August 2024}}
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{{about|the NWT bay|the Nunavut Bay|Lady Franklin Bay}}
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|name= Franklin Bay
|image= Horton River Delta Canada.jpg
|caption = Franklin Bay and the Horton River delta
|location= Amundsen Gulf
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|oceans= Arctic Ocean
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Franklin Bay is a large inlet in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is a southern arm of the Amundsen Gulf, southeastern Beaufort Sea. The bay measures {{cvt|48|km}} long, and {{cvt|40|km}} wide at its mouth. The Parry Peninsula is to the east, and its southern area is called Langton Bay.
Franklin Bay receives the Horton River.{{cite web|url=http://www.bartleby.com/69/81/F02981.html|title=Franklin Bay|date=2000|work=The Columbia Gazetteer of North America|publisher=bartleby.com|accessdate=2009-03-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050816143642/http://bartleby.com/69/81/F02981.html|archive-date=2005-08-16}} There are gales in the early winter months.Stefansson (1913), p. 233
Franklin Bay was named in honour of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin by John Richardson in 1826.{{cite book
| last = Franklin
| first = John
| title = Narrative of a second expedition to the shores of the Polar sea in the years 1825, 1826 and 1827, by John Franklin,... including an account of the progress of a detachment to the Eastward, by John Richardson.
| publisher = J. Murray
| date = 1828
| location = London
| url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_QOyb_rz5czIC| quote = John Franklin 1826.
}}
History
Based on hearsay rather than exploration, Émile Petitot, a French Missionary Oblate and a notable Canadian northwest cartographer, ethnologist, and geographer charted the Hornaday River's mouth at Franklin Bay, instead of Darnley Bay in his flawed 1875 maps and account.{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Richard Clarke |title=Lobsticks and Stone Cairns: Human Landmarks in the Arctic|publisher=University of Calgary Press|date=1996|pages=[https://archive.org/details/lobsticksstoneca00davi/page/153 153]–154|isbn=1-895176-88-3|url=https://archive.org/details/lobsticksstoneca00davi|url-access=registration}}
Langton Bay was the base of operations for the three-year expedition, 1909 to 1912, of Arctic explorers Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Rudolph Anderson{{cite book|last=Stefansson|first=Vilhjalmur |author2=Rudolph Martin Anderson|title=My life with the Eskimo|publisher=Macmillan Company|date=1913|edition=Digitized September 26, 2008|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mylifewitheskim00andegoog/page/n167 125]|url=https://archive.org/details/mylifewitheskim00andegoog}}