Fram Strait

[ fram streyt ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Fram Strait¹

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