Bellot Strait
Geographical location
The Bellotstraße is a strait between the American continent and the island of Somerset in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago -.
She was discovered 1851/52 by William Kennedy and the - accompanying this in his search expedition after John Franklin - French naval officer Joseph René Bellot, after which it was named. The Bellotstraße is a key part of the Northwest Passage. It connects the Gulf of Boothia with the Peelsund and Franklin street between the Boothia Peninsula in the South Somerset and Iceland in the north. Its geographic location is roughly 72 ° 00'N and 94 ° 30'W; Zenith Point, the northernmost point of mainland lies exactly at 72 ° 00.1 ' N.
At the east entrance of the Bellotstraße from the Gulf of Boothia located on Somerset Iceland still two remaining houses of Fort Ross, an active only in the years 1937-1948 outposts of the Hudson's Bay Company, with the ship Aklavik line for the vessel in 1937 for the first time from the west forth through her.
In August 2011, the Bellotstraße shows ice-free.
Fort Ross in 2011
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