Uvayuq,[1] formerly Ovayok[2] or Mount Pelly,[3] is an esker[4] in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut.

[5] The hill, which is more than 200 m (660 ft) high, is located 15 km (9.3 mi) north east of the hamlet of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.

This find, which the local elders indicated was something they had never seen and must have happened before their grandparents were alive, fitted in with an Inuit legend.

The legend indicated that people in the area were starving and they were saved only when a skilled hunter killed a loon.

[6] The esker was given its English name by Thomas Simpson and Peter Warren Dease in 1839 to honour Sir John Henry Pelly, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.