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Hudson Bay

noun

  1. a large inland sea in N Canada. 850 miles (1,370 km) long; 600 miles (965 km) wide; 400,000 sq. mi. (1,036,000 sq. km).


Hudson Bay

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noun

  1. an inland sea in NE Canada: linked with the Atlantic by Hudson Strait; the S extension forms James Bay; discovered in 1610 by Henry Hudson. Area (excluding James Bay): 647 500 sq km (250 000 sq miles)
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Hudson Bay

  1. Inland arm of the Atlantic Ocean in east-central Canada . Quebec , Ontario , Manitoba , and the Northwest Territories lie on its shores.
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Notes

It was explored and named by Henry Hudson , who was searching for the Northwest Passage .
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This is partly as a result of a late freeze-up of ice around Hudson Bay, with unusually warm ocean waters taking a long time to cool down.

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"We’ve been to see the brown bears fishing the salmon out of a river in Alaska, we saw beluga whales in Hudson Bay, Canada," Liz says.

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Every year, the Hudson Bay - on the western edge of which the town is perched - thaws, and forces the bears on shore.

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Last month, the eastern half of Hudson Bay, home to the world’s most-studied polar bears, went ice free a month earlier than usual.

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His 160-acre stake stood on disputed land operated by Canada’s Hudson Bay Company as a sheep farm, managed by its agent, Charles Griffin, owner of the deceased pig.

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