McClure Strait
The M'Clure Strait is a strait on the edge of the Canadian Northwest Territories. It forms the northwestern end of the Parry Channel which extends east all the way to Baffin Bay and is thus a possible route for the Northwest Passage.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.- Type: Strait
- Description: Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Also known as: “M’Clure Strait” and “Mac Clurov prieliv”
McClure Strait
- Category: body of water
- Location: Northwest Territories, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
74.7° or 74° 42′ north
Longitude
-117° or 117° west
Open location code
C565M2X2+X2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=strait
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“McClure Strait” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مضيق مكلور”
- Azerbaijani: “Mak-Klur boğazı”
- Belarusian: “Мак-Клур”
- Belarusian: “Праліў Мак-Клур”
- Bulgarian: “Макклур (проток)”
- Bulgarian: “Макклур”
- Catalan: “Estret de McClure”
- Catalan: “Estret McClure”
- Cebuano: “M’Clure Strait”
- Chinese: “麥克盧爾海峽”
- Chinese: “麦克卢尔海峡”
- Czech: “McClureův průliv”
- Danish: “M’Clure Strait”
- Dutch: “M’Clure Strait”
- Esperanto: “Markolo M’Clure”
- Finnish: “M’Clure Strait”
- Finnish: “McClure Strait”
- Finnish: “McCluren salmi”
- Finnish: “McClurensalmi”
- French: “Détroit de M’Clure”
- French: “Detroit de McClure”
- French: “détroit de McClure”
- French: “Détroit de McClure”
- French: “Détroit M’Clure”
- French: “Détroit McClure”
- Georgian: “მაკ-კლურის სრუტე”
- German: “M’Clure Strait”
- German: “McClure Strait”
- German: “McClure-Straße”
- Hebrew: “מצר מקלור”
- Hebrew: “מצר מקקלור”
- Hindi: “एम्क्ल्यूरे जलसन्धि”
- Italian: “Stretto di McClure”
- Japanese: “マクルアー海峡”
- Latvian: “Maklūra šaurums”
- Lithuanian: “Makliuro sąsiauris”
- Malayalam: “മക്ലൂർ കടലിടുക്ക്”
- Nepali: “एम्क्ल्यूरे जलसन्धि”
- Nepali: “म्याक क्ल्युरी जलसन्धि”
- Newari: “एम्क्ल्यूरे जलसन्धि”
- Newari: “मिक्ल्युर जलसन्धि”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “McCluresundet”
- Polish: “Cieśnina McClure’a”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de McClure”
- Russian: “Мак-Клур”
- Slovak: “Mac Clurov prieliv”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de McClure”
- Spanish: “Estrecho McClure”
- Swedish: “M’Clure Strait”
- Swedish: “McClures sund”
- Turkish: “McClure Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Мак-Клур”
- Vietnamese: “eo biển M’Clure”
- Vietnamese: “eo biển McClure”
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