CHANNELS LEADING TO THE PALEOCRYSTIC SEA,THE ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO - THE POLAR SEA AND ITS APPROACHES

1890s HISTORICAL MAP CHART

Kennedy Channel (Danish: Kennedy Kanalen; 80°55?N 66°30?W) is an Arctic sea passage between Greenland and Canada's most northerly island, Ellesmere Island. It forms part of Nares Strait, linking Kane Basin with Hall Basin. From the south, its beginning is marked by Capes Lawrence and Jackson; its junction with Hall Basin is marked by Capes Baird and Morton. It is about 130 kilometres in length, between 24 to 32 kilometres in width and averages water depths between 180 to 340 metres. It was named by Elisha Kane around 1854 during his second Arctic voyage in search of the lost Franklin expedition. It is not entirely clear, however, for which Kennedy he named the channel. Kane may have had his fellow explorer William Kennedy in mind, whom he had met a few years previously while both were involved in earlier searches for Franklin's expedition. However, most historians believe it was named for John Pendleton Kennedy, the United States Secretary of the Navy during 1852 to 1853, under whose direction Kane's second Arctic voyage took place. Robeson Channel (82°0?N 61°30?W) is a body of water lying between Greenland and Canada's most northerly island, Ellesmere Island. It is the most northerly part of Nares Strait, linking Kennedy Channel to the south with the Arctic Ocean to the north. It is about 50 miles (80 km) in length and between 11 to 18 miles (18 to 29 km) wide. Alert, the world's most northerly permanently-inhabited settlement, lies nearby. Smith Sound (78°25?N 74°0?W) is an Arctic sea passage between Greenland and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island. It links Baffin Bay with Kane Basin and forms part of the Nares Strait. The sound was discovered in 1616 by William Baffin and originally named Sir Thomas Smith's Bay after the English diplomat Sir Thomas Smyth. By the 1750s it regularly appeared on maps as Sir Thomas Smith's Sound, though no further exploration of the area would be recorded until John Ross' 1818 expedition. By this time it had begun to be known simply as Smith Sound. Although now called a sound rather than a bay, John Ross, like Baffin before him, believed it was an inlet leading to a mountain range he called the Crocker Hills. It was not until Edward Inglefield's first voyage to the Arctic in 1852 that it became evident that this was not the case

1890s Wood Engraving Antique Map

Approximate Overall Size: 7 X 10 1/2 inches

CONDITION: Book Plate INTEXT MAP - Excellent Condition. Beautiful with excellent detail. There is Text on Front and Back Side.