Mansel Island

Mansel Island lies in northeastern Hudson Bay, south of Southampton Island and west of the Ungava Peninsula. Its eastern coast holds the Arnapik archaeological site, evidence of people who occupied this Arctic island long before European ships entered the bay. In 1613 the navigator Thomas Button passed the island on his return from a search for the Northwest Passage. He named it for Sir Robert Mansel, an admiral and relation by marriage, after a winter spent on the western shore of the bay.