Fury and Hecla Strait

Fury and Hecla Strait is a narrow (from 2 to 20 km (1.2 to 12.4 mi) wide) Arctic seawater channel located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.

Situated between Baffin Island to the north and the Melville Peninsula to the south, it connects Foxe Basin on the east with the Gulf of Boothia on the west.

Originally recorded by a sailboat's onboard sonar, local hunters from the town of Igloolik blamed it for a comparative scarcity of marine game animals that year.

The local legislative assembly member Paul Quassa mentioned past rumors of Greenpeace using sonar signals to drive animals away from hunting grounds, but a spokesperson for the group denied any such activity.

[4][5] According to Peter Worcester of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, a possible cause of the acoustic noise could be the product of Arctic ice rubbing together, cracking, and moving.

Map showing Fury and Hecla Strait, Nunavut , Canada, between Baffin Island to the north and the Melville Peninsula to the south. The settlement of Igloolik lies to the east.