Penny Strait

Penny Strait
Connects waters	Arctic Ocean
with water	Queens Channel
Separates land mass	Bathurst Island
of land mass	Devon Island
	Data
Geographical location	76 ° 30 ′ N , 97 ° 0 ′ W Coordinates: 76 ° 30 ′ N , 97 ° 0 ′ W
length	90 km
Smallest width	30 km
Islands	John Barrow Island , Isle of Mists , Hyde Parker Island , Fairholme Island , Kerr Island , Toms Island , Cracroft Island , Loney Island

The Penny Strait is a strait in Nunavut ( Canada ), the Bathurst Iceland (in the southwest) from the Grinnell Peninsula of Devon Iceland separates (in the east). Both islands belong to the Queen Elizabeth Islands and thus to the Canadian Arctic archipelago . The strait is 90 kilometers long and 30 kilometers wide and joins the Queens Channel in the south and the part of the sea surrounded by Devon, Bathurst, Helena , Cameron , Lougheed , King Christian , Ellef Ringnes , Amund Ringnes and Cornwall Island in the north . It is named after its discoverer William Penny .

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