Jones Sound
is a waterway in
Qikiqtaaluk
Qikiqtaaluk (ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ formerly Sillem Island is an uninhabited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is the second largest (after Bylot Island) of the several hundred islands and islets that are located in Baffin Bay, ...
,
Nunavut, Canada. It lies between
Devon Island and the southern end of
Ellesmere Island. At its northwestern end it is linked by several channels to
Norwegian Bay
Norwegian Bay (french: Baie Norvégienne) is an Arctic Ocean waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Amund Ringnes Island is to the northwest (separated by the Hendriksen Strait from Cornwall Island), and Axel Heiberg Island i ...
; at its eastern end it opens via
Glacier Strait into
Baffin Bay. The hamlet of
Grise Fiord
Grise Fiord (; iu, ᐊᐅᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ, translit=Aujuittuq, lit=place that never thaws, italics=no) is an Inuit hamlet on the southern tip of Ellesmere Island, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is one of three populated places on ...
was established on the south shore Ellesmere Island in 1953, partly to
assert Canadian sovereignty in the high
Arctic
The Arctic ( or ) is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Danish Realm (Greenland), Finland, Iceland, N ...
.
The first known European to sight the sound was the English explorer
William Baffin
William Baffin ( – 23 January 1622) was an English navigator, explorer and cartographer. He is primarily known for his attempt to find a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, during the course of which he was the first Euro ...
in 1616 who named it after one of his patrons. The next European to pass it was
John Ross in 1818.
References
Sounds of Qikiqtaaluk Region
Bodies of water of Baffin Bay
Rifts and grabens
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