McDougall Sound: Difference between revisions

'''McDougall Sound''' is an [[Arctic]] [[waterway]] in [[Qikiqtaaluk Region|Qikiqtaaluk]], [[Nunavut]], [[Canada]]. It is located between southeastern [[Bathurst Island (Canada)|Bathurst Island]] and western [[Cornwallis Island (Nunavut)|Cornwallis island]]. The sound's southern mouth opens to the [[Parry Channel]], and beyond that, to the [[Barrow Strait]]. The sound's northern mouth opens to [[Crozier Strait]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bartelby.org/69/83/C10683.html |title=Cornwallis Island |accessdateaccess-date=2008-04-30 |date=2000 |publisher=The Columbia Gazetteer of North America}}</ref> The sound is populated by several smaller islands, the named ones including [[Milne Island]], [[Little Cornwallis Island]], Wood Island, Neal Islands, [[Truro Island]], and Baker Island.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ca.encarta.msn.com/map_701571136/mcdougall_sound.html |title=Map of McDougall Sound (sound), Nunavut, Canada |accessdateaccess-date=2008-04-30 |year=2007 |publisher=encarta.msn.com}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>

McDougall Sound is the namesake of [[George F. McDougall]] who explored the sound in 1851 while wintering with Capt. [[Horatio Austin]]'s search team seeking the lost [[Franklin Expedition]].<ref>{{cite book |url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=6N0oYtQDxS0C&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=%22Lowther+Island%22&pg=PA48 |pages=48–50 |last=Bray, E. F. d., & Barr, W. |year=1992 |title=A Frenchman in search of Franklin: de Bray's Arctic journal, 1852-1854 |location=Toronto |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=0-8020-2813-6}}</ref>

The sound is home to [[bearded seal]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic36-3-262.pdf |title=Underwater vocalizations as a tool for studying the distribution and relative abundance of wintering pinnipeds in the High Arctic |author=Stirling, I., Cleator, H., & Calvert, W. |year=1980 |location=Calgary, Alta |publisher=Pallister Resource Management Ltd |oclc=16581532}}</ref> Atlantic [[walrus]] (''O. rosmarus rosmarus'') have also been charted as far west as McDougall Sound.<ref>{{cite journal |url=httphttps://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=oaJ&q=Atlantic+walruses+are+mapped+as+ranging+westward+to+Peel+Sound%2C+McDougall+Sound+and+Queens+Channel.+Loughrey+also+provides+a+number+of+interesting&btnG=Search |title=Extralimital Occurrences of Walruses in the Canadian Arctic |accessdateaccess-date=2008-04-30 |last=Harington |first=C. R. |date=August 1966 |work= |publisher=Journal of Mammalogy |volume=47 |pages=506–513 |oclc=65831135 |issue=3}}</ref>

In his 1990 study of [[Paleo-Eskimo]] people (who preceded the [[Inuit]]), Helmer describes three occupation periods in the McDougall Sound region: Transitional Period [[Dorset culture|Dorset]] (ca. 3000 BP), Early Dorset (2500—2200 BP), and Late Dorset (ca. 1500—1000 BP), demonstrating abrupt ends to three sets of occupations by Palaeo-Eskimo hunters.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic44-4-301.pdf|title=The Palaeo-Eskimo Prehistory of the North Devon Lowlands |last=Helmer |first=James W. |date=1990-06-05 |publisher=Arctic |volume=44 |pages=301–317 |oclc= |issue=4}}</ref> The [[University of Calgary]]'s McDougall Sound Arctic Research Project continued this work.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://arky.ucalgary.ca/show/showintro.html |title=McDougall Sound Arctic Research Project |last=Helmer |first=James |author2=LeMoine, Genevieve |year=1995 |accessdateaccess-date=2008-04-30 |publisher=ucalgary.ca |archiveurlarchive-url = httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20080307223531/http://arky.ucalgary.ca/show/showintro.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedatearchive-date = 2008-03-07}}</ref>

[[Category:Bodies of water of Baffin Bay]]