page_title: Foxe Basin
hierarchical_section_title: Foxe Basin
caption_attribution_description: English: A map showing Foxe Basin and nearby areas. This map's source is here, with the uploader's modifications, and the GMT homepage says that the tools are released under the GNU General Public License.
context_page_description: Foxe Basin is a shallow oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula. For most of the year, it is blocked by sea ice and drift ice made up of multiple ice floes.
  The nutrient-rich cold waters found in the basin are known to be especially favourable to phytoplankton and the numerous islands within it are important bird habitats, including Sabine's gulls and many types of shorebirds. bowhead whales migrate to the northern part of the basin each summer.
  The basin takes its name from the English explorer Luke Foxe who entered the lower part in 1631.
context_section_description: Foxe Basin is a shallow oceanic basin north of Hudson Bay, in Nunavut, Canada, located between Baffin Island and the Melville Peninsula. For most of the year, it is blocked by sea ice (fast ice) and drift ice made up of multiple ice floes.
  The nutrient-rich cold waters found in the basin are known to be especially favourable to phytoplankton and the numerous islands within it are important bird habitats, including Sabine's gulls and many types of shorebirds. bowhead whales migrate to the northern part of the basin each summer.
  The basin takes its name from the English explorer Luke Foxe who entered the lower part in 1631.
caption: Map of Foxe Basin and environs
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