Byam Channel

Byam Channel
Connects waters	Byam Martin Channel
with water	Viscount Melville Sound
Separates land mass	Melville Island
of land mass	Byam Martin Island
	Data
Geographical location	75 ° 15 ′ N , 105 ° 15 ′ W Coordinates: 75 ° 15 ′ N , 105 ° 15 ′ W
length	53 km
Smallest width	27 km

The Byam Channel (German Byam Canal ) is a strait in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut Province in the Canadian-Arctic Archipelago . It runs between the east coast of Melville Island and Byam Martin Island . The canal, which is around 27 km wide at its narrowest point, connects the Viscount-Melville Sound in the south with the Byam Martin Channel in the north.

On October 30, 1974, the crash of Panarctic Oils Flight 416 occurred on the icy surface of the canal , in which 32 of the 34 people on board died and the aircraft went down.

Web links

Byam Channel. www.nrcan.gc.ca, accessed on September 22, 2015 (English).

Individual evidence

↑ 32 killed as plane crashes in Arctic , New York Times, October 31, 1974, accessed August 14, 2019.

[1] 32 killed as plane crashes in Arctic , New York Times, October 31, 1974, accessed August 14, 2019.