Arctic waterway lying between Greenland and Canada
Kane Basin, Nunavut, Canada.
Nunavut
Greenland
Northwest Territories
Kane Basin (Danish: Kane Bassin; French: Bassin (de) Kane) is an Arctic waterway lying between Greenland and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island. It links Smith Sound to Kennedy Channel and forms part of Nares Strait. It is approximately 180 kilometres in length and 130 km at its widest.
It is named after the American explorer Elisha Kane, whose expedition in search of Franklin's lost expedition crossed it in 1854. Kane himself had named it "Peabody Bay," in honor of philanthropist George Peabody, the major funder of Kane's expedition.[1] Currently Peabody Bay is a bay at the eastern side of the basin, off the southwestern end of the Humboldt Glacier in northern Greenland.[2][3]
^"KANE, ELISHA KENT". University of Toronto. Retrieved 2010-03-28. A believer in the hypothesis of an open polar sea, he persuaded Grinnell, American financier George Peabody, the United States Navy Department, and several scientific societies to sponsor a second expedition to go north from Baffin Bay to the shores of the "Polar Sea" in search of Franklin. [...] The Advance then proceeded up the west coast of Greenland and into the sound Kane named Peabody Bay (later renamed Kane Basin) where, by the end of August, its northward progress was stopped by the ice.
^Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 88
KaneBasin (Danish: Kane Bassin; French: Bassin (de) Kane) is an Arctic waterway lying between Greenland and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island...
glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. The Humboldt Glacier borders the KaneBasin in North West Greenland. Its front is 110 km (68 mi) wide. It has been...
From south to north, the strait includes Smith Sound, KaneBasin, Kennedy Channel, Hall Basin and Robeson Channel. Nares Strait has a nearly permanent...
Lancaster Sound (LS), Norwegian Bay (NB), KaneBasin (KB), Baffin Bay (BB), Davis Strait (DS), Foxe Basin (FB) and the western and southern Hudson Bay...
Elisha Kent Kane (February 3, 1820 – February 16, 1857) was a United States Navy medical officer and Arctic explorer. He served as assistant surgeon during...
Nunavut's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island. It links Baffin Bay with KaneBasin and forms part of the Nares Strait. On the Canadian side it extends from...
Prudhoe Land in the south, the Humboldt Glacier in the northeast, and the KaneBasin to the north. The Dodge Glacier is located to the southwest and the Hiawatha...
Olympic Peninsula, United States Kalmar Strait – between Öland and Småland KaneBasin – between Ellesmere Island and Greenland Kanmon Strait – between Honshū...
Washington Land is located to the west of Daugaard-Jensen Land, between the KaneBasin in the west and northwest and Peabody Bay in the south. Crozier Island...
two winters the expedition charted both sides of KaneBasin to about 80°N, from where Elisha Kent Kane claimed to have sighted the conjectured Open Polar...
fjord in northern Greenland. To the southwest, the fjord opens into the KaneBasin of the Nares Strait. The Cass Fjord opens to the SW at the northern end...
Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. The cape, which extends into the KaneBasin was named after Arctic explorer, Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet. "Cape John...
waterway was later renamed the KaneBasin, but Peabody Bay survives as the name of a smaller bay at the eastern side of the basin. On July 10, 1862, he was...
cruising seasons in the Arctic (Greenland, Baffin Bay, Devon Island, KaneBasin, Lancaster Sound, Peel Sound, Regent Sound) and four seasons in the South...
feature at the northern end of Peabody Bay on the eastern side of the KaneBasin in northwestern Greenland. Earth sciences portal Paleontology portal List...
Cape Purchase. 1853–54 – American explorer Elisha Kent Kane and his men chart the KaneBasin and discover Kennedy Channel. One of his men, William Morton...
Avannaata municipality. Peabody Bay is located on the eastern side of the KaneBasin off the western end of the Humboldt Glacier. Cape Forbes and the Cass...
under whose direction Kane's second Arctic voyage took place. It forms part of Nares Strait, linking KaneBasin with Hall Basin. From the south, its beginning...
crushed stone and sand. In the center, there is a deep pit called the Baffin Basin, reaching 2,136 m (7,008 ft) (see depth map), which is mostly covered in...
"1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet B-8, 3rd edition". Kane, Elisha Kent (1857). The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir...
located at the north end of Rice Strait, near the southern entrance of KaneBasin. Ellesmere Island is to the east. Dodd, G. J.; G. P. Benson; D. T. Watts...
Greenland 1:1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart, Sheet B-8, 3rd edition Kane, Elisha Kent (1857). The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir...
William Penny's Expedition (1850–51), Elisha Kane's Second Grinnell Expedition (1853–1855) into KaneBasin, Francis Leopold McClintock Expedition (1857)...
international independent study, Re-Assessment of the Baffin Bay and KaneBasin Polar Bear Subpopulations: Final Report to the Canada-Greenland Joint...
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