Franklin might have reached Victoria Strait by Viscount Melville Sound and M'Clintock Channel, while
Hudson Strait, Fury and Hecla Strait, the Gulf of Boothia and Prince Regent Inlet provided a possible alternative to Baffin Bay and Lancaster Sound.
On reaching Hatten's Head on Resolution Island,
Hudson Strait (somewhere around 65 [degrees] W), they would "resolve" longitude, by resetting it to 0 [degrees] .
3 Number of weeks earlier that ice breaks up in the
Hudson Strait, compared with the 1970s.
In the summer of 1959, I patrolled by boat, going as far as Salluit in
Hudson Strait. Along the way, I had gotten the word out that I would innoculate as many Inuit dogs against rabies as I could.
Catch history, former abundance and distribution of white whales in
Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay.
As the map on the book's cover shows, Quaqtaq is located on
Hudson Strait at the extreme northwest tip of Ungava Bay.
Bowhead whales in the western North Atlantic are currently segregated into two stocks, one occupying Davis Strait, Baffin Bay, and along the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (Davis Strait stock) and the other found in
Hudson Strait, Hudson Bay, and Foxe Basin (Hudson Bay stock) (as defined in Moore and Reeves, 1993; Fig.
Heinrich event layers contain mostly white grains from carbonate rocks that have been traced to Canada's
Hudson Strait. For that reason, scientists believe Heinrich events occurred when the giant Laurentide ice sheet on North America surged into the
Hudson Strait, causing a record number of bergs to calve into the ocean there.
It is worth noting that in the case of North America, the only parts of the Arctic that had been mapped by that date, with any degree of detail at all, were Hudson Bay,
Hudson Strait, Foxe Channel, and the southeastern coast of Baffin Island.
Caption: The HMCS Toronto and the Canadian Coast Guard Ship (CCGSJ Pierre Radisson sail past an iceberg in the
Hudson Strait off the coast of Baffin Island during Operation NANOOK 08.
The voyage to Hudson Bay gathered vital new information through a variety of means, such as day-to-day navigation, precise hydrographic measurements, new maps and charts, and astronomical readings; even the dangers associated with such a daring mission were a source of valuable insights, as were encounters with the indigenous peoples of Hudson Bay and
Hudson Strait.