Smith Sound

Smith Sound
Smith Sound, Nunavut, Canada.
  Nunavut (mostly Ellesmere Island)
  Greenland
Smith Sound is located in Nunavut
Smith Sound
Smith Sound
Coordinates78°25′N 74°00′W / 78.417°N 74.000°W / 78.417; -74.000 (Smith Sound)[1]
Ocean/sea sourcesKane Basin / Baffin Bay
Basin countriesCanada, Greenland
Max. length50 km (31 mi)
Max. width40 km (25 mi)[2]
FrozenMost of the year
IslandsPim Island, Littleton Island
SettlementsUninhabited

Smith Sound (Danish: Smith Sund; French: Détroit de Smith) is an Arctic sea passage between Greenland and Nunavut's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island. It links Baffin Bay with Kane Basin and forms part of the Nares Strait. On the Canadian side it extends from Cape Sabine in the north to Cape Isabella in the south.[1]

On the Greenland side of the sound were the now abandoned settlements of Etah and Annoatok.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Smith Sound". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
  2. ^ GoogleEarth
  3. ^ Ehrlich, Gretel (2001). This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland. Random House. pp. 26–7, 141, 239, 348. ISBN 978-0-679-75852-5.