Rice Strait

Rice Strait
Connects waters	Rosse Bay
with water	Buchanan Strait
Separates land mass	Ellesmere Island
of land mass	Pim Island
Data
Geographical location	78 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  N , 74 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 78 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  N , 74 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  W
length	8 kilometers
Smallest width	1.5 km

The Rice Strait (German Rice Street ) is a strait in the north of the Canadian province of Nunavut . It separates the west coast of Ellesmere Island from the offshore Pim Island . The Rice Strait is part of the Smith Sound .

The strait was named after George W. Rice (1855-1884), who was a photographer on Adolphus Greely's polar expedition from 1881 to 1884 with the party. In 1898/99 the Second Norwegian Polar Expedition spent the winter here with the Fram under the direction of Otto Sverdrup .

Web links

• Rice Strait. www.nrcan.gc.ca, accessed on October 19, 2015 (English). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Herman Dieck: The Marvelous Wonders of the Polar World. National Publishing Company, Philadelphia 1885. p. 521. (Preview in Google Books )