Hamilton Inlet
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| Hamilton Inlet | |
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| Location | south central Labrador, between Lake Melville and Groswater Bay |
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| Basin countries | Canada |
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Hamilton Inlet is a fjord-like inlet of Groswater Bay on the Labrador coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Together with Lake Melville, it forms its province's largest estuary, extending over 140 km (87 mi) inland to Happy Valley-Goose Bay and primarily draining the Churchill River and Naskaupi River watersheds. Lake Melville is generally considered a part of Hamilton Inlet and extends west of the deep, narrow passage at the community of Rigolet.
Names
It was given its present name in honour of Charles Hamilton, commodore-governor of Newfoundland in the early 1800s and former namesake of the inlet's affluent, the Hamilton River (now the Churchill). Inclusive of Groswater Bay, it has also been known as Ivucktoke (Inuttitut: Aivitok); Eskimo or Esquimaux Bay (Template:Langx, "Bay of the Eskimos"); and St Louis Bay (Template:Langx).Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
History
In 1586, it was the scene of an Inuit attack on the expedition of John Davis which killed two and wounded others.[1]
References
Citations
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- ^ Libraries and Archives Canada. "John Davis, the Master Navigator". Accessed 10 May 2012.
Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hamilton, William Baillie (1996), Place Names of Atlantic Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ISBN 9780802075703.
External links
- A map of Labrador showing Hamilton Inlet as excluding L. Melville
- "River Flow and Winter Hydrographic Structure of the Hamilton Inlet-Lake Melville Estuary of Labrador", which treats Hamilton Inlet as synonymous with Groswater Bay and exclusive of Lake Melville
