Belcher Canal

Belcher Canal
The Belcher Canal south of Cornwall Island
Connects waters	Arctic Ocean
with water	Norwegian Bay
Separates land mass	Cornwall Island
of land mass	Devon Island
Data
Geographical location	77 ° 15 ′  N , 95 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 77 ° 15 ′  N , 95 ° 0 ′  W
length	70 km
Smallest width	45 km
Islands	Table Island , Ekins Island , Exmouth Island , Princess Royal Island , Belcher Island

The Belcher Channel ( English Belcher Channel ) is a strait in the Canadian territory of Nunavut . Located in the Canadian Arctic archipelago , it separates Cornwall Island in the north from Devon Island in the south.

geography

The Belcher Canal forms the western exit of Norwegian Bay . Between Cornwall Island and the Grinnell Peninsula in northwest Devon Island, it runs 70 km to the west. Its minimum width is about 40 km. In the strait there is a group of islands made up of Table Island , Ekins Island and Exmouth Island , in a bay in Devon Island the island Princess Royal Island and immediately off the coast of Cornwall Island the small Belcher Island .

history

Edward Belcher was the first European to reach the waterway named after him in 1852. In search of the missing Franklin expedition , he had set up his winter quarters in Northumberland Sound and had penetrated in a boat across the channel to Cornwall Island.

Web links

• Belcher Channel . Natural Resources Canada map at a scale of 1: 1,000,000

Individual evidence

1. ^ William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers - A Historical Encyclopedia . tape 1 . ABC-CLIO, 2003, ISBN 1-57607-422-6 , pp. 76 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ^ Edward Belcher: The last of the Arctic voyages; being a narrative of the expedition in HMS Assistance, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher CB, in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852–53–54 . Volume 1, Lovell Reeve, London 1855, pp. 110 ff.