Lancaster Sound
Lancaster Sound is a body of water in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located between Devon Island and Baffin Island, forming the eastern entrance to the Parry Channel and the Northwest Passage.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Channel
- Description: Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Also known as: “Tallurutiup Imanga” and “ᑕᓪᓗᕈᑎᐅᑉ ᐃᒪᖓ”
Lancaster Sound
- 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 Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Lancaster Sound” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Lankaster boğazı”
- Basque: “Lancaster itsasartea”
- Bulgarian: “Ланкастър (проток)”
- Bulgarian: “Ланкастър”
- Catalan: “estret de Lancaster”
- Catalan: “Estret de Lancaster”
- Cebuano: “Lancaster Sound (agianan sa Canada)”
- Cebuano: “Lancaster Sound”
- Chinese: “兰开斯特海峡”
- Czech: “Lancasterský průliv”
- Danish: “Lancaster Sund”
- Dutch: “Lancaster Sound”
- Dutch: “Lancaster Zeestraat”
- Dutch: “Lancasterzeestraat”
- Esperanto: “Markolo de Lankastro”
- Estonian: “Lancasteri väin”
- Finnish: “Lancasterinsalmi”
- French: “détroit de Lancaster”
- French: “Détroit de Lancaster”
- French: “Tallurutiup Imanga”
- French: “ᑕᓪᓗᕈᑎᐅᑉ ᐃᒪᖓ”
- German: “Lancaster Sound”
- German: “Lancastersund”
- German: “Tallurutiup Imanga”
- German: “ᑕᓪᓗᕈᑎᐅᑉ ᐃᒪᖓ”
- Hebrew: “לנקסטר סאונד”
- Indonesian: “Selat Lancaster”
- Inuktitut: “ᑕᓪᓗᕈᑎᐅᑉ ᐃᒪᖓ”
- Italian: “Stretto di Lancaster”
- Japanese: “ランカスター海峡”
- Korean: “랭커스터 해협”
- Latvian: “Lankastera šaurums”
- Malayalam: “ലാൻകാസ്റ്റർ സൗണ്ട്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lancastersundet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lancastersundet”
- Norwegian: “Lancastersundet”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Lancastera”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Lancaster”
- Russian: “Ланкастер”
- Slovak: “Lancasterský prieliv”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Lancaster”
- Swedish: “Lancastersundet”
- Ukrainian: “Ланкастер”
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