Viscount Melville Sound

Viscount Melville Sound
Viscount Melville Sound, Nunavut
Connects waters	Lancastersund
with water	McClure Street
Separates land mass	Victoria Island , Prince of Wales Island
of land mass	Queen Elizabeth Islands
Data
Geographical location	74 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 108 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 74 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 108 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  W

The Viscount Melville Sound ( English Viscount Melville Sound ) is a body of water in the Canadian Arctic archipelago , which separates Victoria Island and Prince of Wales Island from the Queen Elizabeth Islands in Nunavut ( Canada ). To the east of the strait is Lancastersund , which flows into Baffin Bay ; to the west are the McClure Straits and the Arctic Ocean .

In search of the missing participants in the Franklin expedition , the British explorer Robert John Le Mesurier McClure came to the Viscount-Melville Sound from the east in 1850. With that he had found the Northwest Passage he had been looking for for a long time , the last section of the passage between the Atlantic and Pacific in a westerly direction.