Dease Strait
Dease Strait is an east–west waterway between the mainland's Kent Peninsula and Victoria Island in Nunavut, Canada. It is part of the Northwest Passage.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Channel
- Description: strait in Canada
- Also known as: “Dease straat”, “Dease-Straße”, “Протока Діз”, and “ディーズ海峡”
Dease Strait
- Categories: strait and body of water
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
68.83423° or 68° 50′ 3″ north
Longitude
-107.50236° or 107° 30′ 9″ west
Open location code
95WJRFMX+M3
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Dease Strait” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Dis boğazı”
- Catalan: “estret de Dease”
- Catalan: “Estret de Dease”
- Cebuano: “Dease Strait”
- Chinese: “迪斯海峽”
- Dutch: “Dease-straat”
- French: “détroit de Dease”
- French: “Détroit de Dease”
- German: “Dease Strait”
- Hebrew: “מצר דיז”
- Japanese: “ジース海峡”
- Latvian: “Dīza šaurums”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dease Strait”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Dease”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Dease”
- Russian: “Дис”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Dease”
- Swedish: “Dease Strait”
- Ukrainian: “Діз”
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Highlights: Hargrave River and Cape Peel.
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