Cumberland Sound

 ( Sounds Of The Qikiqtaaluk Region ) 

Cumberland Sound (; Inuit languages: Kangiqtualuk)Shelagh Grant. Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923. McGill-Queen's Press, 2005 is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is a western arm of the Labrador Sea located between Baffin Island's Hall Peninsula and the Cumberland Peninsula. It is approximately long and wide. Other names are Cumberland Straits, Hogarth Sound, and Northumberland Inlet.

Small islands litter the stretch of water which was formed from glacial activity and meltwater produced from the receding glacier.

The only settlement located on the shore of the sound on the Cumberland Peninsula is Pangnirtung.

John Davis, the English explorer, went part way up the sound in 1585. After that it was unvisited by Europeans until 1839, when the British whaler and explorer William Penny persuaded Eenoolooapik (brother of interpreter and guide Taqulittuq) to show him the inland sea. The Inuit had described the sound, known to him as Tenudiackbeek, as full of whales, and soon the British set up a whaling station there.

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Fauna Two whale species reside in the sound year-round – the Cumberland Sound beluga and the bowhead whale. Other notable species include such as the Ringed seal, Bearded seal, Harp seal, Harbor seal and , as well as the polar bear. Significant fish populations include Arctic char and Greenland halibut. Birds such as , , and goose migrate and spend the springs and summers in Cumberland Sound, while birds such as Lagopus and remain year-round.

• Fisheries and Oceans Canada

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