Frozen Strait

Geographical location

The Frozen Strait (English " Frozen Sea Road" ) is a strait in the Arctic Ocean, located in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago -.

It is located in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, between the island of Southampton Iceland and the front situated in the south and the White Iceland Iceland Vansittart and Melville Peninsula in the north. It connects the Foxe Basin in the east with the Roes Welcome Sound on the west. The Repulse Bay is located in the north of Frozen Strait. The strait has a length of 80 km and a width of 19-32 km.

It was measured by the English navigator Christopher Middleton, when he was with the HMS Furnace in 1742 in search of a Northwest Passage. W. Gillies Ross reported in his 1974 study distribution, migration, and depletion of Bowhead Whales in Hudson Bay, 1860 to 1915, Greenland whales migrate through the Roes Welcome Sound in spring and autumn. Thus, there is the possibility that this is also true for the frozen Strait.