Terror Bay
{{Short description|Bay in Nunavut, Canada}}
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| name= Terror Bay
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| location= King William Island
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Terror Bay ({{langx|iu|ᐊᒥᑦᕈᖅ}}, {{lang|iu-Latn|Amitruq}}){{cite web|url=http://atlas.kitikmeotheritage.ca/index.html?module=module.names#eyJ0IjoieCIsImkiOiJiZjJkOWVjMGE5ZTRiN2Q1MmY3ODc5ZGMxMmQyYzc2ZiIsInMiOjE0NzU1NDMyMjU0MDJ9 |title=ᐊᒥᑦᕈᖅ, Amitruq, Bay at Kitikmeot Place Name Atlas|publisher=Kitikmeot Heritage Society|access-date=23 May 2024}} is an Arctic waterway in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on the southwestern side of King William Island. The entrance to the bay is marked by Fitzjames Island on the west and Irving Island to the east. The bay opens to Queen Maud Gulf.
Association with John Franklin
{{more|Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site}}
The bay was one of a series of landmarks along the waters explored by John Franklin during his lost expedition between 1845 and 1848.{{cite web|url=https://toponymes.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search?q=Terror&category=O&sort-field= |title=Terror land forms|publisher=Geographical Names Board of Canada, Natural Resources Canada|access-date=23 May 2024|date=16 February 2021}} The bay has the same name as {{HMS|Terror|1813|6}}, one of the two ships of the expedition.{{Cite web|last=Weiss|first=Daniel|date=February 2017|title=Discovering Terror|url=https://www.archaeology.org/issues/242-1701/trenches/5095-trenches-canada-hms-terror|access-date=16 May 2021|website=Archaeology|publisher=Archaeological Institute of America}} The ships entered Baffin Bay in 1845 on their quest to find a Northwest Passage, and were abandoned sometime in 1848.
Terror Bay was officially named by the Geographical Names Board of Canada in 1910. Inuit oral history provided clues about the ships' demise, but the precise locations of the wrecks were not known for over 160 years.
In 2016, Arctic Research Foundation researchers on board the Martin Bergmann announced that they had found the wreck of HMS Terror in Terror Bay. They had been led there by a tip from Inuk crewman Sammy Kogvik, from Gjoa Haven, who reported seeing a mast protruding from the ice in Terror Bay during a hunting trip in 2010.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/hms-terror-wreck-found-arctic-nearly-170-years-northwest-passage-attempt |first1=Paul|last1=Watson|title=Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt|work=The Guardian|date=12 September 2016|access-date=23 May 2024}} The wreck of the other ship of the lost expedition, HMS Erebus, had previously been found in 2014.{{cite web|url=https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/65674hms_terror_franklins_second_ship_finally_found_in_nunavut/ |first1=Steve |last1=Ducharme|title=HMS Terror, Franklin's second ship, finally found in Nunavut|publisher=Nunatsiaq News|date=12 September 2016|access-date=23 May 2024}}
Following the rediscovery of the Terror and {{HMS|Erebus|1826|6}} the Nunavut Field Unit of Parks Canada restricted access to a rectangular area of the bay, as part of the Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site. The area runs from Point E ({{coord|68|54|25.45|N|98|59|42.07|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody|name=point E}}) to Point F ({{coord|68|54|25.24|N|98|51|29.08|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody|name=point F}}) to Point G ({{coord|68|48|46.23|N|98|51|31.25|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody|name=point G}}) to Point H ({{coord|68|48|46.44|N|98|59|42.15|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody|name=point H}}).{{cite web|url=https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/epaveswrecks/info/plan |title=Restricted area and activities in The Wrecks Of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site Of Canada|access-date=23 May 2024|date=22 March 2023}}
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Category:Bays of Kitikmeot Region