Description
Camden Bay is located on Beaufort Sea coast between Barter I. and Point Brownlow, Arctic Plain. 50 miles wide.
History
Named August 4, 1826, by Franklin (1828, p. 147) who wrote: "we embarked, * * * to cross the bay, which has been named in honour of the Marquess Camden." The son of Lord Chancellor Pratt, the Earl of Camden, "the Marquess became successively a Lord of the Admiralty, a Lord of the Treasury, and Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland in the ministry of William Pitt" (Stuck, 1920, p. 301).