Fig. 1: Cambridge Bay (Nunavut, Canada) is on the southern route of the Northwest Passage.
From: Marine soundscapes of the Arctic and human impacts: going beyond the “shipping bands”
This map shows individual ship traffic information, provided by the Arctic Ship Traffic Database (ASTD) of the Arctic Council’s working group on Protection of the Marine Environment (PAME), using Automatic Identification Systems (AIS). AIS positions are recorded every six minutes and the present map shows August traffic, cumulated from 2015 to 2024, The main shipping lane passes in front of Cambridge Bay and there is regular traffic going into the bay itself.
