Hoppner Inlet

Hoppner Inlet is an arm of Foxe Basin's Lyon Inlet on southern Melville Peninsula in Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.

It was first surveyed by the Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer Lieutenant Henry Parkyns Hoppner during William Edward Parry's Second Arctic Expedition of 1821-1823, and named by Parry in honor of Hoppner.^[1]

References

↑ Halpenny, F.G.; Holland, C. (1966). Dictionary of Canadian biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 229–230. ISBN 0-8020-3142-0.

Inlets of Nunavut

Kitikmeot Region	Bathurst Chantrey

Kivalliq Region	Chesterfield

Qikiqtaaluk Region	Admiralty Balcom Barrier Berlinguet Bond Burnett Clyde Coutts Crooks Cuming Elwin Erskine Griffin Hobhouse Hoppner Irvine Jackson Levasseur Milne Moffet Navy Board Pell Powell Prince Regent Robert Peel Scott Shaftesbury Steensby Stratton Ward Wight Wiswell

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