Eureka sound

Eureka sound
Satellite photo of the Axel Heiberg Island with the Eureka Sound as the eastern boundary
Connects waters	Nansen sound
with water	Norwegian Bay
Separates land mass	Axel Heiberg Island
of land mass	Ellesmere Island
Data
Geographical location	79 ° 10 ′  N , 84 ° 50 ′  W Coordinates: 79 ° 10 ′  N , 84 ° 50 ′  W
length	290 km
Smallest width	9 km
Islands	Stor Island , Hat Island , Ulvingen Island
Fjord system from Nansen Sound, Greely Fiord and Eureka Sound

The Eureka Sound is a Straits of the Arctic Ocean in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut . Together with the Nansen Sound , it separates the islands of Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island .

The Eureka Sound forms an extensive fjord system with the Greely Fiord and the Nansen Sound. While the Nansen Sound flows into the open ocean, the Eureka Sound connects to Norwegian Bay . The sound is 290 km long and between 9 and 48 km wide. The fjords that flow from Ellesmere Island in the east are called Slidre Fiord, Vesle Fiord and Bay Fiord, the fjords of Axel Heiberg Island in the west are called Gibs Fiord, Mokka Fiord, Whitsunday Bay and Skaare Fiord. Stor Island and the small Hat Island are centrally located in Eureka Sound . Ulvingen Island is located at the mouth of the Eureka Sound in Norwegian Bay .

With the exception of the arctic research station Eureka on Slidre Fiord, the coast of the Eureka Sound is uninhabited today , but numerous finds of the Thule culture prove an earlier settlement.

The Eureka Sound got its name from the second expedition with the Fram , which discovered it in the spring of 1901 and thus found the hoped-for proof that Axel Heiberg Island is not part of Ellesmere Island, but an island in its own right.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eureka Sound ( Memento of February 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive ). In: The Columbia Gazetteer of North America , 2000 (English)
2. ^ Wayne Pollard: Axel Heiberg Island . In: Mark Nuttall (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arctic . tape 1 . Routledge, New York and London 2003, ISBN 1-57958-436-5 , pp. 181–183 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
3. ^ Otto Sverdrup : New Land. Four Years in the Arctic Regions , Volume 2, Longmans, Green and Co., London 1904, 185 f. (English)