Robeson Channel
Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
Greenland
Robeson Channel (82°00′N 061°30′W / 82.000°N 61.500°W) is a body of water lying between
Newman Fjord
in Greenland has its mouth in the Robeson Channel.
It is about 50 mi (80 km) in length and between 11 and 18 mi (18 and 29 km) wide. Alert, the world's most northerly permanently inhabited settlement, lies nearby.
It was named during the 1871
George Robeson, Secretary of the Navy in the Ulysses S. Grant
administration.
Further reading
- Chow, R. K. Near-Surface Current in Robeson Channel. Defence Research Establishment Ottawa, 1975.
- Dunbar, Moira, and John E. Keys. Robeson Channel Ice Drift and Oceanographic Measurements 1970-1975. Ottawa: [Defense Research Establishment Ottawa?], 1980.
- Serson, H. V. Robeson Channel Experiment Main and Radar Camp-Plans and Operations. Ottawa: Dept. of National Defence, 1971.
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