Robeson Channel

Robeson Channel, northernmost part of the sea passage connecting Baffin Bay, an inlet of the North Atlantic Ocean, with the Lincoln Sea, a portion of the Arctic Ocean, to the north. The channel is 11–18 miles (18–29 km) wide between Ellesmere Island, Can. (west), and northwest Greenland (east); and it extends northward for 50 miles (80 km) from the Hall Basin to the Lincoln Sea. For brief periods during the summer the channel is open...