Steensby Inlet is a waterway in Nunavut 's Qikiqtaaluk Region . It extends northerly from Foxe Basin into central Baffin Island . There are several unnamed islands within the inlet, and Koch Island lies outside of it. The Steensby Inlet Ice Stream arose after the deglaciation of Foxe Basin.
4-518: It is named in honor of Hans Peder Steensby , ethnographer and professor of geography at the University of Copenhagen . Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation is mining for iron ore north of the inlet. Iron ore was first found in the Mary River area in 1962. The Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation had plans to build a 149 km (93 mi) railroad line connecting the inlet to a mine-site in
8-599: The Mary River area. According to Railway Gazette International , this would have been the most northerly railroad line in the world. 70°10′N 078°25′W / 70.167°N 78.417°W / 70.167; -78.417 ( Steensby Inlet ) This Qikiqtaaluk Region , Nunavut location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hans Peder Steensby Hans Peder Steensby (25 March 1875, Steensby, Skamby Sogn, Funen Island – 20 October 1920, aboard ship Frederik VIII)
12-739: The culture of the nomads. In 1909 he lived among the Greenlandic Inuit of the Cape York area. In 1911 he became professor of Geography at the Copenhagen University. In 1913 he made a research trip to Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan . During the last years of his life he became interested in the Vinland sagas and came up with a new hypothesis. He traveled to Canada in 1920 in order to further research
16-406: Was an ethnographer, geographer and professor at the University of Copenhagen . Steensby was born into a family of farmers. His original name was Hans Peder Jensen, but in 1902 he changed his name to Steensby, the name of the parish where he was born. After completing his education in 1900 he moved to Copenhagen and became a teacher. In 1908 he travelled to Algeria and Tunisia , where he studied
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