Kane Basin
Kane Basin is an Arctic waterway lying between Greenland and Ellesmere Island, Canada's northernmost. It links Smith Sound to Kennedy Channel and forms part of Nares Strait.Kane Basin
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- Description: bay in Nares Strait between Canada and Greenland
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Latitude
79.5° or 79° 30′ north
Longitude
-69° or 69° west
Open location code
C7FHG222+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=strait
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kane Basin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حوض كين”
- Bavarian: “Kane Basin”
- Belarusian: “Басейн Кейна”
- Belarusian: “Заліў Кейна”
- Bulgarian: “Басейн Кейн”
- Catalan: “conca de Kane”
- Catalan: “Conca de Kane”
- Catalan: “Conca Kane”
- Catalan: “Kane Basin”
- Cebuano: “Kane Basin”
- Chechen: “Кейнан бассейн”
- Chinese: “凯恩湾”
- Chinese: “凱恩灣”
- Danish: “Kane Bassin”
- Dutch: “Kane Basin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حوض كين”
- Estonian: “Kane’i laht”
- Finnish: “Kane Basin”
- Finnish: “Kanen allas”
- French: “bassin Kane”
- French: “Bassin Kane”
- German: “Kane Basin”
- German: “Kane-Becken”
- Hebrew: “אגן קיין”
- Hebrew: “באסין קיין”
- Indonesian: “Cekungan Kane”
- Italian: “Baia di Kane”
- Italian: “Kane Basin”
- Japanese: “ケーン海盆”
- Japanese: “ケイン湾”
- Latvian: “Keina baseins”
- Polish: “Basen Kane’a”
- Portuguese: “Bacia de Kane”
- Russian: “Бассейн Кейна”
- Russian: “Залив Кейна”
- Russian: “Кейн-Бейсин”
- Slovenian: “Kane Basin”
- Slovenian: “Kaneova kotlina”
- Spanish: “Cuenca Kane”
- Swedish: “Kane Basin”
- Ukrainian: “Басейн Кейна”
- Venetian: “Conca Kane”
- Vietnamese: “bồn địa Kane”
- Vietnamese: “lòng chảo Kane”
- Vietnamese: “lưu vực Kane”
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