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M'Clure Strait, the Glossary

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The M'Clure Strait (sometimes rendered McClure Strait) is a strait on the edge of the Canadian Northwest Territories.[1]

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  1. 30 relations: Arctic, Arctic Archipelago, Banks Island, Beaufort Sea, Canada, Canadian Internal Waters, David Scott Cowper, Eglinton Island, European Space Agency, Extensional tectonics, Hallberg-Rassy, Icebreaker, McClure Arctic expedition, Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut), Museum Tusculanum Press, Northwest Passage, Northwest Territories, Oceanic crust, Parry Channel, Prince of Wales Strait, Prince Patrick Island, Rift, Robert McClure, Royal Navy, Sea ice, SS Manhattan (1961), Strait, Territorial claims in the Arctic, United States, Viscount Melville Sound.

  2. Parry Channel
  3. Straits of the Arctic Ocean
  4. Straits of the Northwest Territories

Arctic

The Arctic is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

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Arctic Archipelago

The Arctic Archipelago, also known as the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, is an archipelago lying to the north of the Canadian continental mainland, excluding Greenland (an autonomous territory of Denmark) and Iceland (an independent country).

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Banks Island

Banks Island is one of the larger members of the Arctic Archipelago.

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Beaufort Sea

The Beaufort Sea (Mer de Beaufort) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Alaska, and west of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canadian Internal Waters

In Canadian law, Canadian Internal Waters are the waters "on the landward side of the baselines of the territorial sea of Canada.".

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David Scott Cowper

David Scott Cowper is a British yachtsman, and was the first man to sail solo round the world in both directions and was also the first to successfully sail around the world via the Northwest Passage single-handed.

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Eglinton Island

Eglinton Island an uninhabited island of the Arctic Archipelago in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.

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Extensional tectonics

Extensional tectonics is concerned with the structures formed by, and the tectonic processes associated with, the stretching of a planetary body's crust or lithosphere.

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Hallberg-Rassy

Hallberg-Rassy Varvsaktiebolag (HR) is a Swedish shipyard internationally known for producing high quality blue water sailing yachts.

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Icebreaker

An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships.

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McClure Arctic expedition

The McClure Arctic expedition, one of many attempts to find the missing Franklin expedition, was significant for being the first to successfully discover and transit the Northwest Passage, which it accomplished by both boat and sledging.

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Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut)

Melville IslandCoordinates are located on the NWT side.

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Museum Tusculanum Press

Museum Tusculanum Press (Danish: Museum Tusculanums Forlag) is an independent academic press historically associated with the University of Copenhagen, publishing mainly in the humanities, social sciences and theology.

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Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Arctic Archipelago of Canada.

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Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories (abbreviated NT or NWT; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; formerly North-West Territories) is a federal territory of Canada.

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Oceanic crust

Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of the tectonic plates.

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Parry Channel

The Parry Channel (ᑕᓪᓗᕈᑎᐅᑉ ᐃᒪᖓ, Tallurutiup Imanga) is a natural waterway through the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Prince of Wales Strait

The Prince of Wales Strait is a strait in the Northwest Territories of Canada separating Banks Island to the northwest from Victoria Island to the southeast. M'Clure Strait and Prince of Wales Strait are straits of the Northwest Territories.

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Prince Patrick Island

A member of the Arctic Archipelago, Prince Patrick Island is the westernmost of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Northwest Territories of Canada, lying northwest of Melville Island.

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Rift

In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.

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Robert McClure

Vice-Admiral Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure (28 January 1807 – 17 October 1873) was an Irish explorer who explored the Arctic.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Sea ice

Sea ice arises as seawater freezes.

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SS Manhattan (1961)

SS Manhattan was an oil tanker constructed at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, that became the first commercial ship to cross the Northwest Passage in 1969.

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Strait

A strait is a landform connecting two seas or two water basins.

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Territorial claims in the Arctic

The Arctic consists of land, internal waters, territorial seas, exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and international waters above the Arctic Circle (66 degrees 33 minutes North latitude).

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Viscount Melville Sound

Viscount Melville Sound, formerly Melville Sound, is an arm of the Arctic Ocean in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut and the Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories, Canada. M'Clure Strait and Viscount Melville Sound are Parry Channel.

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See also

Parry Channel

Straits of the Arctic Ocean

Straits of the Northwest Territories

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M'Clure_Strait

Also known as McClure Strait.