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Lancaster Sound

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noun

  1. an arm of Baffin Bay, Nunavut Territory, Canada, leading W to the Parry Channel. 200 miles (320 km) long and 40 miles (64 km) wide.


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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

Barrow Strait, the connecting channel between Lancaster Sound and Baffin's Bay on the east and the Polar Ocean on the west.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various

Captain Walker says ships could not have reached Lancaster Sound, as there was much ice north of Pond's Bay which he thought extended quite across to Melville Bay.

From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock

This second part of Lancaster Sound, he called after the Secretary of the Admiralty who had so indefatigably labored to promote the expeditions, Barrow's Strait.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

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