Wager Bay is a waterway in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut

Nunavut

Nunavut is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It is located in Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay

Hudson Bay , sometimes called Hudson's Bay, is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada. It drains a very large area, about , that includes parts of Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, most of Manitoba, southeastern Nunavut, as well as parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota,...

. Ukkusiksalik National Park

Ukkusiksalik National Park

Ukkusiksalik National Park is a national park in Nunavut, Canada.Ukkusiksalik National Park is a tundra and coastal mudflat region extending south of the Arctic Circle and the hamlet of Repulse Bay, from Hudson Bay's Roes Welcome Sound towards the western Barrenlands and the source of Brown River....

 surrounds it.

Wager Bay was first charted by Christopher Middleton

Christopher Middleton (navigator)

Christopher Middleton was an English naval officer and navigator. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 7 April 1737....

 during his Arctic

Arctic

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 explorations of 1742.

Geography

The bay is a long inlet stretching through tundra; its shoreline measures 93 mi (149.7 km) in length. The elevation is 51 m (167.3 ft) above sea level

Above mean sea level

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. It is fed by the Sila River. North Lake, South Lake, Brown Lake, and Ford Lake are nearby.