Kennedy Channel
Kennedy Channel is an Arctic sea passage between Greenland and Canada's most northerly island, Ellesmere Island. It was named by Elisha Kane around 1854 during his second Arctic voyage in search of the lost Franklin expedition.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Kennedy Channel
- Type: Channel
- Description: part of Nares Strait between Canada and Greenland
- Categories: strait and body of water
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kennedy Channel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قناة كينيدي”
- Azerbaijani: “Kennedi boğazı”
- Belarusian: “Праліў Кенэдзі”
- Bulgarian: “Кенеди (проток)”
- Bulgarian: “Кенеди”
- Catalan: “Canal de Kennedy”
- Cebuano: “Kennedy Channel”
- Chinese: “甘迺迪海峽”
- Chinese: “肯尼迪海峡”
- Chinese: “肯尼迪海峽”
- Czech: “Kennedyho průliv”
- Danish: “Kennedy Kanalen”
- Danish: “Kennedykanalen”
- Dutch: “Kennedy Channel”
- Dutch: “Straat Kennedy”
- Esperanto: “Kanalo Kennedy”
- Estonian: “Kennedy väin”
- Finnish: “Kennedyn kanaali”
- Finnish: “Kennedynsalmi”
- French: “Canal Kennedy”
- French: “Kennedy Channel”
- French: “passage Kennedy”
- French: “Passage Kennedy”
- German: “Kennedy Channel”
- German: “Kennedy-Kanal”
- German: “Kennedy-Passage”
- German: “Passage Kennedy”
- Hebrew: “תעלת קנדי”
- Italian: “Canale Kennedy”
- Japanese: “ケネディー海峡”
- Korean: “케네디 해협”
- Latvian: “Kenedija šaurums”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kennedykanalen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kennedykanalen”
- Norwegian: “Kennedykanalen”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Kennedy’ego”
- Portuguese: “Canal de Kennedy”
- Portuguese: “Canal Kannedy”
- Russian: “Пролив Кеннеди”
- Slovenian: “Kennedy Channel”
- Spanish: “Canal de Kennedy”
- Spanish: “Canal Kennedy”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Kennedy”
- Swedish: “Kennedy Channel”
- Swedish: “Kennedykanalen”
- Turkish: “Kennedy Kanalı”
- Ukrainian: “Протока Кеннеді”
- Vietnamese: “Eo biển Kennedy”
- Yue Chinese: “甘迺迪海峽”
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