Lancaster Sound
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Its exit from Canada’s Lancaster Sound on Monday signalled the successful navigation of both sea routes.
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2016
A bowhead whale surfaces from a dive in the chilly waters of Lancaster Sound, Canada.
From National Geographic
This conclusion to push forward for Lancaster Sound was reached on June 19.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.
The air-line distance to Smith Sound and that to Lancaster Sound were about the same, with the tremendous advantage of a straight course—a direct drift—and fairly smooth ice to the southward.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.
After more than seven weeks of such terrible struggles with the ice, the three boats reached the junction of Prince Regent Inlet and Lancaster Sound, only to find the sea covered with continuous, impenetrable ice-floes.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.
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