Barrow Strait

Barrow Strait
Connects waters	Lancastersund
with water	Viscount Melville Sound
Separates land mass	Bathurst Island , Cornwallis Island , Devon Island
of land mass	Prince of Wales Island , Russell Island Somerset Island
Data
Geographical location	74 ° 25 ′  N , 96 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 74 ° 25 ′  N , 96 ° 20 ′  W
length	270 km
Smallest width	45 km
Coastal towns	Resolute Bay
Islands	(numerous)

The Barrow Strait is a 270 km long strait in the Canadian territory of Nunavut . It is the narrowest passage of the Parry Channel and connects Lancastersund in the east with Viscount-Melville-Sound in the west. The Barrow Strait, located in the Canadian Arctic archipelago , separates the islands of Bathurst , Cornwallis and Devon , which belong to the Queen Elizabeth Islands , in the north from the Prince of Wales Island , Russell Island and Somerset Island in the south. At its narrowest point, between Cornwallis Island and Somerset Island, the strait is about 45 kilometers wide. The Resolute Bay settlement on Barrow Strait is the only settlement in this area of ​​the Northwest Passage .

The strait is named after Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet , a British politician and promoter of several official and semi-official voyages of discovery into the Arctic .

Web links

• Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Barrow Strait and Lancaster Sound in Fisheries and Oceans Canada (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Donat Pharand, Legault, LH: The Northwest Passage: Arctic Straits . Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1984, ISBN 9024729793 , p. 7.