Parry Channel


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Parry Channel

A water route through the central Arctic Archipelago of northern Canada, linking Baffin Bay on the east with the Beaufort Sea on the west. It runs south of the Queen Elizabeth Islands and north of Baffin Island and Victoria Island.
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Prince of Wales Strait was the link sought by Franklin; it is reasonably well sheltered from the Beaufort Sea ice; its depth gives it a significant advantage over the route east of King William Island; and the passage through it and Parry Channel was almost completely navigated during a period when Arctic climate was at its coldest.
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But as a result, the focus of the Admiralty's massive operation under Belcher in 1852-54 was directed north of Parry Channel and not south, to where Franklin's ships had indeed penetrated via Peel Sound to near King William Island.
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The sub-regions with the latest landfast ice onset were Amundsen Mouth, Eastern Parry Channel, and Prince Regent, with onset occurring at some point in January.
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