Resolute Bay

Resolute Bay

Resolute Bay is a small bay located on the southern side of Cornwallis Island, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. The community of Resolute is located on the northern shore of the bay and Resolute Bay Airport to the northwest. The Inuit people associated with Resolute Bay are called 'Qausuittuq' [cite web |url=http://www.langtag.com/INUITIC_JUNE_2006.pdf |title=The Linguasphere Online |publisher=langtag.com |accessdate=2008-03-31] and the population in a 2001 census was 210.cite news
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] Resolute Bay is one of the most northernmost settlements in the world.

On the western shore, at coord|74|41|N|094|54|W|, the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE) and the Communications Research Centre [ [http://friendsofcrc.ca/Projects/Sounding%20Rockets/rocket.html Friends of the CRC - Sounding Rockets] ] operated a launch site for sounding rockets. Between 1966 and 1971 rockets of the types Black Brant and Boosted Arcas were launched [ [http://www.astronautix.com/sites/restebay.htm Encyclopedia Astronautica - Resolute Bay] ] .

References

Further reading


* Bremner, Peter C. "Diamond Drilling in Permafrost at Resolute Bay, Northwest Territories". Publications of the Dominion Observatory (Ottawa), v. 16, no. 12. Ottawa: Edmond Cloutier, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, 1955.
* Canada, and F. C. Plet. "Q-Indices of Magnetic Activity at Resolute Bay, Baker Lake, and Yellowknife Magnetic Observatories for Selected Days of the International Geophysical Year". Publications of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, v.27, no. 4. 1963.
* Higdon, Jeff W., and Stefan Romberg. 2006. "Observations of Juvenile Ivory Gulls (Pagophila Eburnea) in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada, August 2005". "Polar Record". 42, no. 2: 170-172.
* Hocking, W K. 2001. "Special Section: Early Polar Cap Observatory - Middle Atmosphere Dynamical Studies at Resolute Bay Over a Full Representative Year: Mean Winds, Tides, and Special Oscillations (Paper 2000RS001003)". "Radio Science". 36, no. 6: 1795.
* Hodges, J. C., and Howard Francis Bates. "The Polar Auroral Radar System McMurdo Base, Antarctica and Resolute Bay, N.W.T., Canada". Menlo Park, Calif: Stanford Research Institute, 1975.
* Lund, Karen E. "An Investigation of Cadmium and Lead from a High Arctic Waste Disposal Site, Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada". Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, 2005. ISBN 0612993531
* Michel, Christine. "Biological investigation of first-year sea ice near Resolute Bay, Nunavut, spring to early summer 2001". Winnipeg: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2003.
* Sauriol, Jacques. "Channel Development and Fluvial Processes in Snow-Filled Valleys, Resolute Bay, N.W.T". Hamilton, Ont: McMaster University, 1978.
* Stocker, Zbigniew Stanislaw J. "The Ecology of the Streams at Char Lake, Resolute Bay, North West Territories". Waterloo, Ont: University of Waterloo, Dept. of Biology, 1972.

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