Jones Sound
Jones Sound is a waterway in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada. It lies between Devon Island and the southern end of Ellesmere Island. At its northwestern end it is linked by several channels to Norwegian Bay; at its eastern end it opens via Glacier Strait into Baffin Bay.
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- Description: waterway in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, Canada
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Latitude
76.00169° or 76° 0′ 6″ north
Longitude
-85.99968° or 85° 59′ 59″ west
Open location code
C68P2222+M4
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Jones Sound” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جونز ساوند”
- Armenian: “Ջոնս”
- Azerbaijani: “Cons boğazı”
- Bulgarian: “Джонс (проток)”
- Bulgarian: “Джонс”
- Catalan: “estret de Jones”
- Catalan: “Estret de Jones”
- Catalan: “Jones Sound”
- Cebuano: “Jones Sound”
- Chinese: “瓊斯灣”
- Dutch: “Jones Sound”
- French: “détroit de Jones”
- French: “Détroit de Jones”
- Galician: “Jones Sound”
- German: “Détroit de Jones”
- German: “Jones Sound”
- German: “Jones Sund”
- German: “Jonessund”
- Japanese: “ジョーンズ海峡”
- Latvian: “Džonsa šaurums”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jones Sound”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jonessundet”
- Norwegian: “Jonessundet”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Jonesa”
- Portuguese: “Jones Sound”
- Russian: “Джонс (пролив)”
- Russian: “Джонс”
- Slovak: “Jamesov prieliv”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Jones”
- Spanish: “Jones Sound”
- Swedish: “Jones Sound”
- Vietnamese: “vịnh Jones”
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