Prince Regent Inlet

Prince Regent Inlet (73°00′N 090°30′W / 73.000°N 90.500°W / 73.000; -90.500 (Prince Regent Inlet)) is a body of water in Nunavut, Canada between the west end of Baffin Island (Brodeur Peninsula) and Somerset Island on the west.

It opens north into Lancaster Sound and to the south merges into the Gulf of Boothia.

[1] During the quest for the Northwest Passage it was entered several times until it was realized that Prince Regent Inlet-Gulf of Boothia is a cul-de-sac for practical purposes.

In 1829 John Ross passed through it and was frozen in the Gulf of Boothia for four years before escaping.

In 1858 Francis Leopold McClintock tried to pass this strait, gave up, and wintered near its mouth.