on Beaufort Sea coast between Barter I. and Point Brownlow, Arctic Plain. 50 miles wide.
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).