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[[Image:HamiltonInlet 2006.PNG|thumb|250px|Hamilton Inlet from the ferry between Cartwright and Happy Valley <small>(2006)</small>]]
'''Hamilton Inlet''' is a [[fjord]]-like inlet of [[Groswater Bay]] on the [[Labrador]] coast of the [[Canadian province]] of [[Newfoundland and Labrador]].  Together with [[Lake Melville]], it forms its province's largest [[estuary]], extending over {{convert|140|km|abbr=on}} inland to [[Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador|Happy Valley-Goose Bay]] and primarily draining the [[Churchill River (Atlantic)|Churchill River]] and [[Naskaupi River]] [[drainage basin|watershed]]s.  Lake Melville is generally considered a part of Hamilton Inlet and extends west of the deep, narrow passage at the community of [[Rigolet, Newfoundland and Labrador|Rigolet]].

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==Names==
It was given its present name in honour of [[Sir Charles Hamilton, 2nd Baronet, of Trebinshun House|Charles Hamilton]], commodore-governor of Newfoundland in the early 1800s and former namesake of the inlet's affluent, the Hamilton River (now the [[Churchill River (Atlantic)|Churchill]]). Inclusive of Groswater Bay, it has also been known as '''Ivucktoke''' ([[Inuttitut]]: ''Aivitok''); '''Eskimo''' or '''Esquimaux Bay''' ({{langx|fr|Baie des Esquimaux}}, "Bay of the [[Inuit|Eskimos]]"); and '''St Louis Bay''' ({{langx|fr|Baie-St Louis}}).{{sfnp|Hamilton|1996|loc=s.v. "Hamilton Falls; Hamilton Inlet; Hamilton River"}}

==History==
In 1586, it was the scene of an [[Inuit people|Inuit]] attack on the expedition of [[John Davis (explorer)|John Davis]] which killed two and wounded others.<ref>Libraries and Archives Canada. "[http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/explorers/www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/explorers/h24-1350-e.html John Davis, the Master Navigator]". Accessed 10 May 2012.</ref>

==References==
===Citations===
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===Bibliography===
* {{citation |last=Hamilton |first=William Baillie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UAvyE0pN5akC |title=Place Names of Atlantic Canada |location=Toronto |publisher=University of Toronto Press |date=1996 |isbn=9780802075703 }}.

==External links==
* [https://www.maptrove.ca/pub/media/catalog/product/n/e/newfoundland-and-labrador-map.jpg A map of Labrador showing Hamilton Inlet as excluding L. Melville]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190819155104/https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/021124.pdf "River Flow and Winter Hydrographic Structure of the Hamilton Inlet-Lake Melville Estuary of Labrador"], which treats Hamilton Inlet as synonymous with Groswater Bay and exclusive of Lake Melville

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[[Category:Estuaries of Canada]]
[[Category:Bays of Newfoundland and Labrador]]
[[Category:Labrador]]

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