Rice Strait

Rice Strait is a narrow waterway between Ellesmere Island's eastern coast and Pim Island in northern Canada's territory of Nunavut. It connects Rosse Bay on the north with Buchanan Strait to the south. [cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4jUNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA521&lpg=PA521&dq=cocked-hat+rice's+strait&source=web&ots=BkiSv6H8AP&sig=gABw_PEW83iIwbNB-aMC5i5wB68&hl=en#PPA521,M1 |pages=521 |title=The Marvellous Wonders of the Polar World |last=Dieck |first=Herman Dieck |year=1885 |publisher=Thompson National Pub. Co. |location=Philadelphia |oclc=6878914]

The strait is named after Sergeant George W. Rice (born Sydney, Nova Scotia), United States Army Signal Corps photographer on Adolphus Greely's Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, and correspondent with the "New York Herald". Rice died in April 1884, before the expedition's rescue. [cite book |pages=639 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Y7cEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA639&dq=arctic+photographer+greely+rice#PPA639,M1 |title=The Photographic news |last=Crookes |first=Sir William |coauthors=Simpson, G Wharton, editors |year=1858 |publisher=Cassell, Petter, and Galpin |location=London |oclc=15044524] [cite book |pages=584 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=dBixudD_nQsC&pg=PA584&dq=%22George+W.+Rice%22+%22Nova+Scotia%22 |title=The world's wonders as seen by the great tropical and polar explorers : being an encyclopedia of exploration, discovery and adventure in all parts of the world ... |last=Buel |first=James William |year=1884 |publisher=Historical Pub. Co. |location=St. Louis |oclc=3569895]

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