Bowman Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

Bowman Bay Wildlife Sanctuary protects a remote coastal habitat on western Baffin Island in Nunavut, along the eastern shore of Foxe Basin. Covering 1,079 square kilometres within part of the Great Plain of the Koukdjuak, it is managed as a habitat and species protection area. The area gained modern importance through J. Dewey Soper’s Arctic expeditions from 1928 to 1931, when he found blue goose nesting grounds on Bluegoose Plain near Bowman Bay, a significant advance in Arctic ornithology. Established in 1957 and later reinforced under the Wildlife Act of 2003, the sanctuary preserves marine and intertidal wildlife by barring industrial activity and hunting.

Nunavut · Canada