Nansen Sound

Nansen Sound
Nansen Sound
Coordinates	80°21′N 086°51′W / 80.350°N 86.850°W / 80.350; -86.850 (Nansen Sound)Coordinates: 80°21′N 086°51′W / 80.350°N 86.850°W / 80.350; -86.850 (Nansen Sound)
Basin countries	Canada

Settlements	Uninhabited

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

Notes

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

References

Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, 1997. ISBN 0-87779-546-0.

Sounds of Nunavut

Kitikmeot Region	Larsen Melville Viscount Melville

Kivalliq Region	Roes Welcome

Qikiqtaaluk Region	Beare Clarke Cumberland Digges Eclipse Eureka Hassel Jones Lancaster Massey McDougall Nansen Oliver Peel Smith Tay

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