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Bernier 
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proceeded to sound Byam Martin and Austin Channels, 
and sailed down Barrow Strait to Navy Board Inlet, 
which he entered, passing down the channels and coming 
out at Pond's Bay. He returned to Canada after com- 
pleting a well planned and most successful voyage. 
The geographic board of Canada have done excellent 
service to Arctic geography by taking in hand the question 
of nomenclature, making a complete list of place names, 
and giving single names to islands which had previously 
been covered with names like an advertisement hoarding, 
without reference to geographical features. 
