What is Grays Bay?
Grays Bay is a small inlet on the southern shore of the Coronation Gulf, part of the Arctic Ocean in Canada's Nunavut territory. Located at approximately 68.5 degrees north latitude and 111.8 degrees west longitude, it sits on the mainland coast roughly 150 kilometres southeast of Kugluktuk, the nearest permanent community.
The bay itself is geographically unremarkable. It is what lies inland, and what the bay represents as a coastal access point, that makes it significant. Grays Bay has been identified as the optimal location for a deep-water port that would become the first such facility on Canada's Western Arctic coast, providing year-round road access to some of the richest undeveloped critical mineral deposits on the planet.
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