Frozen Strait

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Coordinates: 65°50′00″N 84°30′00″W / 65.833333, -84.5

Frozen Strait is an Arctic Ocean waterway located in Nunavut's Foxe Basin between the Melville Peninsula and Southampton Island. It connects Repulse Bay with Roes Welcome Sound. The strait is 80 km (50 mi) long, and 19 km (12 mi) to 32 km (20 mi) wide.[1]

It was first surveyed by the English Capt. Christopher Middleton, searching for the Northwest Passage on the Furnace in 1742.[2][3] In W. Gillies Ross' 1974 study Distribution, Migration, and Depletion of Bowhead Whales in Hudson Bay, 1860 to 1915, he suggests that bowhead whales appeared to migrate in the spring and fall through Roes Welcome Sound, but the possibility of migration through Frozen Strait cannot be ruled out.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Frozen Strait. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America (2000). Retrieved on 2008-04-07.
  2. ^ Richardson, J. (1861). The Polar Regions. Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 117-118. OCLC 2666406. Retrieved on 2008-04-07. 
  3. ^ Barr, William, “Christopher Middleton (ca. 1690-1770)”, 'Arctic Profiles' (Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan), <http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic36-1-98.pdf>. Retrieved on 7 April 2008 
  4. ^ Ross, W.G. (1974). "Distribution, Migration, and Depletion of Bowhead Whales in Hudson Bay, 1860 to 1915". Arctic and Alpine Research 6: 85-98. JSTOR. 


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