Lancaster Sound
Americannoun
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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
Near Cape Riley the Americans fell in with a portion of an English Expedition, and there also the Rescue, left behind in the gale in Lancaster Sound, overtook the Advance.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 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 McClintock, Francis Leopold
North of this they had gone from Baffin Bay through Lancaster Sound and on westward to a great sea called Melville Sound, a body of water larger than the Irish Sea.
From Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas by Leacock, Stephen
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