NASA Landsat image of the strait. The triangular Tennent Island is to the west, and Matty Island lies to the east.
James Ross Strait, an arm of the Arctic Ocean, is a channel between King William Island and the Boothia Peninsula in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
180 km (110 mi) long, and 48 km (30 mi) to 64 km (40 mi) wide, it connects M'Clintock Channel to the Rae Strait to the south. Islands in the channel include the Clarence Islands, Tennent Islands, Beverley Island, and Matty Island.
A number of polar explorers searching for the Northwest Passage sailed through the strait, including Roald Amundsen. The strait is named after British polar explorer James Clark Ross.
JamesRossStrait, an arm of the Arctic Ocean, is a channel between King William Island and the Boothia Peninsula in the Canadian territory of Nunavut...
Sir James Clark Ross DCL FRS FLS FRAS (15 April 1800 – 3 April 1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer known for his explorations of...
Boothia Peninsula by the JamesRossStrait to the northeast, and the Rae Strait to the east. To the west is the Victoria Strait and beyond it Victoria Island...
1829–1833: Royal Navy expedition led by John Ross to search for the Northwest Passage explores JamesRossStrait and King William Land, locates the North...
or directly south along the coast through Rae Strait and JamesRossStrait and west through Simpson Strait south of King William Island (shallow) into Queen...
70°0′N 97°35′W / 70.000°N 97.583°W / 70.000; -97.583 (JamesRossStrait) JamesRossStrait Passing just north of the Clarence Islands, Nunavut, Canada...
the east). To the north, the strait opens into the JamesRossStrait; to the south it opens into the Rae Strait. The strait is covered in ice as soon as...
the Parry Channel and then south through Peel Sound, JamesRossStrait, Simpson Strait and Rae Strait. They spent two winters at King William Island, in...
70°7′N 97°0′W / 70.117°N 97.000°W / 70.117; -97.000 (JamesRossStrait) JamesRossStrait Passing just east of the Clarence Islands, Nunavut, Canada...
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Fury and Hecla Strait is a narrow (from 2 to 20 km (1.2 to 12.4 mi) wide) Arctic seawater channel located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada...
Arctic island group in the Nunavut Territory. The islands lie in the JamesRossStrait, 16 kilometres (10 miles) east of Cape Felix, off the northeast coast...
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(219 sq mi). The Islands are inhabited by the indigenous Torres Strait Islanders. Lieutenant James Cook first claimed British sovereignty over the eastern part...
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M'Clintock Channel, to the north-east it opens into Peel Sound, to the south-east into JamesRossStrait, and to the south-west into Victoria Strait. v t e...
marpolbul.2006.04.005. PMID 16753186. Ross, W. Gillies. Arctic Whalers, Icy Seas Narratives of the Davis Strait Whale Fishery. Toronto, Canada: Irwin...
width of the strait ranges from about 23 to 53 km (14 to 33 mi) and the depth varies between 18 and 46 m (59 and 151 ft). Captain James Cook passed around...
of Nunavut, approximately 2,900 km (1,800 mi) northwest of Ottawa. JamesRossStrait and the St. Roch Basin separate the cape and Boothia Peninsula from...
The Palk Strait (Tamil: பாக்கு நீரிணை Pākku Nīriṇai, Sinhala: පෝක් සමුද්ර සන්ධිය Pok Samudra Sandhiya) is a strait between the Tamil Nadu state of India...
Makassar Strait (Indonesian: Selat Makassar) is a strait between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia. To the north it joins the Celebes Sea...
separate channel to the east of King William Island through JamesRossStrait and Rae Strait, sheltered from the pack by the island but unknown to Franklin...
Hudson Strait (French: Détroit d'Hudson) in Nunavut links the Atlantic Ocean and the Labrador Sea to Hudson Bay in Canada. This strait lies between Baffin...
west) from the Tennent Islands (to the east). To the north the strait opens into the JamesRossStrait; to the south it opens into the Rae Strait. v t e...
Nares Strait (Danish: Nares Strædet; French: Détroit de Nares) is a waterway between Ellesmere Island and Greenland that connects the northern part of...
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