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Pelly Bay
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English
Etymology
From en Pelly bay.
Named after en Sir John Pelly, 1st Baronet Sir John Pelly, the governor of the British colony corporation, the Hudson's Bay Company, that operated the colony of Rupert's Land, that includes this body of water.
Proper noun
Pelly Bay
A bay on the Gulf of Boothia, separated from it and Committee Bay by the Simpson Peninsula.
en Kugaaruk.
A military base on the bay that originated as a DEW Line station
en eponyms