Kane Basin

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Location of the Kane Basin
Satellite image of the Kane Basin with the Humboldt Glacier in Greenland on the right
Kane Basin on the US map sheet from 1976

The Kane Basin is the widest part of the Nares Strait , a strait that connects Baffin Bay in the south with the Lincoln Sea , a tributary of the Arctic Ocean , in the north. It is about 180 km long and up to 130 km wide. It is bounded to the west by Ellesmere Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut and to the east by Greenland . In the south, the Kane Basin merges into Smithsund , in the north into the Kennedy Channel . It is named after the US polar explorer Elisha Kane , who was the first western explorer to reach the water in 1853.

literature

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (US). Radar Imagery of Arctic Pack Ice Kane Basin to North Pole . Hanover, NH: The Division, 1968.
  • Hobbs, William Herbert. Discovery and Exploration Within the Area to the West of the Kane Basin . 1939.
  • Kravitz, Joseph. Sediments and Sediment Processes in Kane Basin, a High Arctic Glacial Marine Basin . [Boulder, Colo.?]: University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, 1982.
  • Marentette, Kris Allen. Late Quaternary Paleoceanography in Kane Basin, Canada and Greenland . Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1989. ISBN 0-315-43760-X

Coordinates: 79 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 70 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  W.