Nansen Sound

Nansen Sound
Nansen Sound
Nansen Sound is located in Nunavut
Nansen Sound
Nansen Sound
Coordinates80°21′N 086°51′W / 80.350°N 86.850°W / 80.350; -86.850 (Nansen Sound)
Basin countriesCanada
SettlementsUninhabited

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

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