Steensby Inlet
Steensby Inlet is an inlet in Nunavut’s Qikiqtaaluk Region. It runs north from Foxe Basin into central Baffin Island. The inlet has several unnamed islands; Koch Island lies just outside it. The Steensby Inlet Ice Stream formed after Foxe Basin thawed following the last ice age. The inlet is named for Hans Peder Steensby, an ethnographer and geography professor at the University of Copenhagen. North of the inlet, the Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation is mining iron ore. Iron ore was first found in the Mary River area in 1962. Baffinland once planned a 149 km railroad from the inlet to a Mary River mine site, which would have been the northernmost railroad in the world.
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