Hall Basin is an
Arctic
The Arctic (; . ) is the polar regions of Earth, polar region of Earth that surrounds the North Pole, lying within the Arctic Circle. The Arctic region, from the IERS Reference Meridian travelling east, consists of parts of northern Norway ( ...
waterway between
Hall Land in
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. It is by far the largest geographically of three constituent parts of the kingdom; the other two are metropolitan Denmark and the Faroe Islands. Citizens of Greenlan ...
to the east and Canada's northernmost island,
Ellesmere Island
Ellesmere Island (; ) is Canada's northernmost and List of Canadian islands by area, third largest island, and the List of islands by area, tenth largest in the world. It comprises an area of , slightly smaller than Great Britain, and the total ...
, to the west.
Hall Basin is named after American polar explorer
Charles Francis Hall.
Geography
Hall Basin is located in
Nares Strait
Nares Strait (; ) is a waterway between Ellesmere Island and Greenland that connects the northern part of Baffin Bay in the Atlantic Ocean with the Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean. From south to north, the strait includes Smith Sound, Kane Basi ...
with its entrance between
Cape Baird on the eastern coast of Ellesmere Island and
Cape Morton on the northwestern coast of Greenland.
Robeson Channel is to the north of the basin, and
Kennedy Channel to the south. The basin is irregularly shaped, the entrance to
Lady Franklin Bay lies on its western shores, being deeply indented by an extensive fjord system. Although the eastern shore is more regular, it includes the
Petermann Fjord of the
Petermann Glacier at its southern end.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 93]
References
Ellesmere Island
Bays of Qikiqtaaluk Region
Straits of Greenland
Straits of Qikiqtaaluk Region
Canada–Greenland border
International straits
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