Hudson Bay
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Area
1.23M km²
Coordinates
60.0000, -85.0000
Category
oceans
Overview
A vast inland sea in northern Canada, once the heartland of the fur trade.
About
Hudson Bay, sometimes called Hudson's Bay, is a large body of saltwater in northeastern Canada with a surface area of 1,230,000 km2 (470,000 sq mi). It is located north of Ontario, west of Quebec, northeast of Manitoba, and southeast of Nunavut, but politically entirely part of Nunavut. It is an inland marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean.
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