Beare Sound

Beare Sound (sometimes Beares Sound) [cite book |title=Dictionary of Canadian biography |last=Brown |first=George Williams |year=1966 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Toronto |isbn=0802031420 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=TNWKZBRZEwAC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=%22james+beare%22+frobisher&source=web&ots=a_ZtgK06XO&sig=Mj-ffrB7z110gm8DiJ_BGJJP6N8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result |pages=85] is an Arctic waterway in Northern Canada's territory of Nunavut. It's located in eastern Frobisher Bay off the southern tip of Baffin Island's Blunt Peninsula.

Martin Frobisher named the sound after James Beare, principal surveyor of the 1577/78 Frobisher expedition. [cite book |title=The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society |last=Shaw |first=N. |coauthors=Greenfield, H. & Bates, H.W. |year=1843 |publisher=J. Murray |location=London |isbn= |url= |oclc= 21468267 |pages=12, 16]

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