Piling Bay

Piling Bay is an uninhabited waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on the west central coast of Baffin Island. An arm of the Foxe Basin, it contains many small, unnamed islands. Foley Island and North Tweedsmuir Island lie outside the mouth of the bay to the south / southwest.

Piling Bay
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Location	Foxe Basin
Coordinates	68°53′N 74°47′W[1]
Basin countries	Canada
Settlements	Uninhabited

Nearby is Angaku'habvik, an Inuit initiation site for angakkuit, intellectual and spiritual figures in Inuit culture.

History

In 1911, the German ornithologist, Bernhard Hantzsch, explored the area of Piling Bay.^[3]