Fram Strait

American  

[fram streyt] / ˈfræm ˈstreɪt /

noun

1. a strait that connects the Greenland Sea to the Arctic Ocean: site of the Molloy Deep, the deepest place in the Arctic.

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Etymology

Origin of Fram Strait

First recorded in 1975–80; named after the Norwegian ship Fram, which, in an 1893 expedition led by Fridtjof Nansen, drifted for two years across the Arctic before exiting the Arctic through what is now known as the Fram Strait

Example Sentences

These waterbodies are connected by the Fram Strait, which sits to the northeast of Greenland near the Svalbard archipelago.

From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2024

Overall, ice floes are spending 37 percent less time in the Arctic before escaping through the Fram Strait to melt in the Atlantic, or about 2.7 years on average since 2007, the researchers found.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2023

He found that first ice was getting younger, which made it thinner and more uniform, and easier to push out through the Fram Strait.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2023

Although this is true of humans, it is not true of corals in the Fram Strait.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2021

Now, Leslie Field, the founder of the group, is targeting critical parts of the Arctic region, in particular the Fram Strait which lies between Greenland and the Norwegian island of Svalbard.

From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2020