Nansen Sound

Nansen Sound

Nansen Sound
Coordinates 80°21′N 086°51′W / 80.350°N 86.850°W / 80.350; -86.850 (Nansen Sound)Coordinates: 80°21′N 086°51′W / 80.350°N 86.850°W / 80.350; -86.850 (Nansen Sound)
Basin countries Canada
Settlements Uninhabited

Nansen Sound is an uninhabited strait in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It lies between western Grant Land on Ellesmere Island and Axel Heiberg Island.[1] To the east it enters Greely Fiord.

Notes

  1. Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition, p. 789.

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