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Looking west along the edge of Resolute Bay.
Resolute Bay Location in Nunavut
Location	Parry Channel
Coordinates	74°41′N 094°52′W / 74.683°N 94.867°W / 74.683; -94.867 (Resolute Bay)
Basin countries	Canada
Settlements	Resolute

Resolute Bay is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Parry Channel on the southern side of Cornwallis Island. The hamlet of Resolute is located on the northern shore of the bay with Resolute Bay Airport to the northwest. The Inuit people associated with Resolute Bay are called 'Qausuittuq' and the population of the hamlet in the 2006 census was 229.

On the western shore, the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE) and the Communications Research Centre operated a launch site for sounding rockets. Between 1966 and 1971 rockets of the types Black Brant and Boosted Arcas were launched.

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  Orthographic projection centred over Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada.

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  Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada - Lambert Projection.

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  Resolute Bay: View from Signal Hill to the Inuit-Settlement "Village" and to Resolute Passage (August 1997)

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  Another view over Resolute Bay to the Inuit Settlement "Village" (August 1997)

A small hut built some 600 years ago by the Thule people, ancestors of the Inuit, near the hamlet of Resolute it was restored by archaeologists.

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