Norwegian Bay is an Arctic ocean waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region. Nunavut, Canada. Amund Ringnes Island is to the northwest (separated by 10 km (6.2 mi) wide Hendriksen Strait from Cornwall Island), and Axel Heiberg Island to the north (both islands being part of the Sverdrup Islands), Ellesmere Island is to the east, and Devon Island is to the south. Six islands lie within Norwegian Bay:
- Cornwall Island (the largest and westernmost)
- Graham Island
- Buckingham
- Table
- Exmouth
- Ekins
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“The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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