Frozen Strait

Frozen Strait
Connects waters	Foxe Basin
with water	Roes Welcome Sound , Repulse Bay
Separates land mass	Southampton Island , White Island
of land mass	Vansittart Island , Melville Peninsula (Mainland Canada)
Data
Geographical location	65 ° 45 ′  N , 84 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 65 ° 45 ′  N , 84 ° 20 ′  W
length	80 km
Smallest width	19 km

The Frozen Strait ( English "Frozen Sea Strait" ) is a strait in the Arctic Ocean , located in the Canadian-Arctic archipelago .

It is located in the Canadian territory of Nunavut , between the island of Southampton Island and the White Island in front of it in the south and the Vansittart Island and Melville Peninsula in the north. It connects the Foxe Basin in the east with the Roes Welcome Sound in the west. The Repulse Bay is north of the Frozen Strait. The strait is 80 km long and 19 to 32 km wide.

It was measured by the English navigator Christopher Middleton when he was looking for a north-west passage with the HMS Furnace in 1742 . W. Gillies Ross reported in his 1974 study distribution, migration, and depletion of Bowhead Whales in Hudson Bay, 1860 to 1915 that bowhead whales through the spring and autumn Roes Welcome Sound draw. So there is a likelihood that this will also apply to Frozen Strait.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. Richardson, The Polar Regions , pages 117-118, A. and C. Black, 1861, Edinburgh
2. ↑ Christopher Middleton (approx. 1690-1770), William Barr, University of Saskatchewan, Arctic Profiles, Saskatoon (PDF file; 191 kB)
3. ↑ Distribution, Migration, and Depletion of Bowhead Whales in Hudson Bay, 1860 to 1915 by WG Ross, 1974, JSTOR, Arctic and Alpine Research, volume = 6, pages = 85-98, doi = 10.2307 / 1550373, issue = 1