Popham Bay

Popham Bay cuts into the east coast of Baffin Island's Hall Peninsula. Its inlets resemble fjords, bounded by high cliffs; the Leybourne Islands stand near the entrance, rising steeply from the sea. To the north lies Cumberland Sound, where Inuit hunted bowhead whales long before commercial whalers arrived. English navigator John Davis explored the sound in 1585, and British whalers were working in Davis Strait by the middle of the eighteenth century.