Peary Bay

{{Short description|Bay in Nunavut, Canada}}

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|location= Nares Strait

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Peary Bay is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Nares Strait by eastern Ellesmere Island between the Cook Peninsula and the Bache Peninsula.

It was named in honour of the American explorer Robert Peary by Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist Harald Sverdrup.{{cite book|last=Hobbs|first=William Herbert |title=Peary|publisher=Macmillan|date=1936|edition=Digitized 26 August 2008|pages=206|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-1i4AAAAIAAJ&q=%22peary+Bay%22}}