Kane Basin

The Kane Basin is the southernmost and widest part of Nares Strait, a strait that connects the Baffin Bay in the south to the Lincolnsee, a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean in the north. It is about 180 km long and up to 130 km wide. Limited, it is in the west of Ellesmere Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut and to the east of Greenland. In the south of the Kane Basin enters the Smith Sound, to the north in the Kennedy Channel. It is named after the American Arctic explorer Elisha Kane, the first Western researchers reached in 1853 the waters.