Frozen Strait

Frozen Strait is an Arctic Ocean waterway located in Nunavut's Foxe Basin between the Melville Peninsula and Southampton Island. It connects Repulse Bay with Roes Welcome Sound. The strait is convert|80|km|mi|abbr=on long, and convert|19|km|mi|abbr=on to convert|32|km|mi|abbr=on wide. [cite web |url=http://www.bartleby.com/69/68/F03568.html |title=Frozen Strait |year=2000 |publisher= The Columbia Gazetteer of North America |accessdate=2008-04-07]

It was first surveyed by the English Capt. Christopher Middleton, searching for the Northwest Passage on the "Furnace" in 1742. [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NRsHRy-cv3QC&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=%22frozen+strait%22&source=web&ots=KFdPlRpjkp&sig=_7HKoPfBmzQzrzTQ6xi0ODSiuVQ&hl=en#PPA118,M1 |title=The Polar Regions |pages=117-118 |last=Richardson |first=J. |location=Edinburgh |publisher=A. and C. Black |year=1861 |oclc=2666406 |accessdate=2008-04-07] [citation |url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic36-1-98.pdf |title=Christopher Middleton (ca. 1690-1770) |pages= |last=Barr |first=William |location=Saskatoon |publisher=University of Saskatchewan |journal="Arctic Profiles" |accessdate=2008-04-07] In W. Gillies Ross' 1974 study "Distribution, Migration, and Depletion of Bowhead Whales in Hudson Bay, 1860 to 1915", he suggests that bowhead whales appeared to migrate in the spring and fall through Roes Welcome Sound, but the possibility of migration through Frozen Strait cannot be ruled out. [cite journal |title=Distribution, Migration, and Depletion of Bowhead Whales in Hudson Bay, 1860 to 1915 |url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/1550373 |last=Ross |first=W.G. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1974 |publisher= JSTOR |location= |journal=Arctic and Alpine Research |volume=6 |number=1 |pages=85-98]

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