Viscount Melville Sound

American  

noun

1. an arm of the Arctic Ocean between Victoria and Prince of Wales islands to the S and Melville and Bathurst islands to the N, in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada. 250 miles (400 km) long and 100 miles (160 km) wide.

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Example Sentences

Two sections, M’Clure Strait and Viscount Melville Sound, are only passable for two to five weeks, about a third of the season length 20 years ago, according to the researchers.

From The Wall Street Journal

It passes through Canada’s Viscount Melville Sound—but, as everyone had long since known, travel to and through it was far too dangerous to be commercially viable.

From The New Yorker

Beyond the strait, the Manhattan faced the most dangerous leg of the journey �Viscount Melville Sound and, finally, ice-choked McClure Strait.

From Time Magazine Archive