James Gordon 1993
Frobisher Bay is an inlet of the Davis Strait in Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the southeastern corner of Baffin Island. The capital of Nunavut, Iqaluit, known as Frobisher Bay from 1942 to 1987, lies near the innermost end of the bay. The first Church of England service recorded on North American soil was in Iqaluit in 1578. Iqaluit gets significantly colder in its winter than the South Georgia Islands in "Wee Pot Stove" get in the southern winter, with highs below 10°F for four months of the year.
Chorus:
Cold is the Arctic sea
Far are your arms from me
Long will this winter be
Frozen in Frobisher Bay
Frozen in Frobisher Bay
“One more whale,” our captain cried
“One more whale and we’ll beat the ice.”
But the winter star was in the sky
The seas were rough, the winds were high
Deep were the crashing waves
That tore our whalers mast away
Dark are these sunless days
Waiting for the ice to break
Strange is a whaler’s fate
To be saved from the raging waves
Only to waste away
Frozen in this lonely grave