Nares Strait
The Nares Strait is a waterway between Ellesmere Island and Greenland that connects the northern part of Baffin Bay in the Atlantic Ocean with the Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Nares Strait
- Type: Channel
- Description: Canadian/Danish strait
- Categories: strait, watercourse, 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 Western Frisian—“Nares Strait” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مضيق ناريس”
- Azerbaijani: “Nares boğazı”
- Basque: “Nares itsasartea”
- Belarusian: “Праліў Нарэса”
- Belarusian: “Праліў Нэрса”
- Catalan: “estret de Nares”
- Catalan: “Estret de Nares”
- Cebuano: “Nares Strait”
- Central Bikol: “Itiot nin Nares”
- Chinese: “內爾斯海峽”
- Chinese: “内尔斯海峡”
- Croatian: “Naresov tjesnac”
- Czech: “Naresův průliv”
- Danish: “Nares Strædet”
- Danish: “Nares-strædet”
- Dutch: “Nares Strait”
- Dutch: “Straat Nares”
- Dutch: “Straat van Nares”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مضيق ناريس”
- Esperanto: “Markolo de Nares”
- Estonian: “Narese väin”
- Finnish: “Naresinsalmi”
- French: “Detroit de Nares”
- French: “détroit de Nares”
- French: “Détroit de Nares”
- German: “Nares Strædet”
- German: “Nares Strait”
- German: “Nares-Strasse”
- German: “Nares-Straße”
- German: “Naresstrasse”
- German: “Naresstraße”
- Hebrew: “מצר נארס”
- Hebrew: “מצרי נארס”
- Hindi: “नरस जलसंधि”
- Hungarian: “Nares-szoros”
- Italian: “Stretto di Nares”
- Japanese: “ネアズ海峡”
- Korean: “나레스 해협”
- Korean: “네어스 해협”
- Kurdish: “Tengava Nares”
- Kurdish: “تەنگاڤا نارەس”
- Latvian: “Neirsa šaurums”
- Latvian: “Nersa šaurums”
- Macedonian: “Нерсов Проток”
- Malayalam: “നാരെസ് കടലിടുക്ക്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nares Strædet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Naressundet”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Naresa”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Nares”
- Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Nares”
- Russian: “Нарес”
- Russian: “Нареса”
- Russian: “Пролив Нарес”
- Russian: “Пролив Нареса”
- Russian: “Пролив Нэрса”
- Serbian: “Nersov prolaz”
- Serbian: “Нерсов мореуз”
- Serbian: “Нерсов пролаз”
- Slovenian: “Naresov preliv”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Nares”
- Spanish: “Estrecho Nares”
- Swedish: “Nares Strait”
- Swedish: “Nares sund”
- Turkish: “Nares Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Протока Нерса”
- Vietnamese: “Eo biển Nares”
- Western Frisian: “Nares Strjitte”
- Western Frisian: “Strjitte fan Nares”
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Highlights include Détroit de Nares and Joiner Bay.
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