Port Refuge is located off the south coast of Grinnell Peninsula in a small bay on the south coast of Devon Island in Nunavut, Canada.

[2][3] The site received its current name by Sir Edward Belcher when he sought refuge there in 1852–1853 from moving ice during his voyage in search of the missing Franklin Expedition.

[4] Port Refuge contains archaeological evidence of early human occupation of the High Arctic over the last 4000 years.

[2] These show evidence of trade with medieval Norse colonies of Greenland.

[3] Port Refuge was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1978.