Amundsen Gulf

Amundsen Gulf is a gulf located in the Canadian Northwest Territories at 70° North and 120° West. It is situated between Banks Island and Victoria Island on the north, and the Northwest Territories mainland on the south. The gulf is approximately 250 miles in length (402km), and is about 93 miles (150km) across where it meets the Beaufort Sea. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2200x1700, 527 KB) Summary Photo from Visible Earth, NASA - Credit Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2200x1700, 527 KB) Summary Photo from Visible Earth, NASA - Credit Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team. ... A gulf or bay is a part of a lake or ocean that extends so that it is surrounded by land on three sides. ... Motto: None Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Yellowknife Largest city Yellowknife Commissioner Tony Whitford Premier Joe Handley (Consensus government - no party affiliations) Area 1,346,106 km² (3rd) Land 1,183,085 km² Water 163,021 km² (12. ... A degree (in full, a degree of arc), usually symbolized °, is a measurement of plane angle, representing 1／360 of a full rotation. ... Compass rose with north highlighted and at top North is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the primary direction: north is used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions; the (visual) top edges of maps usually correspond to the... A compass rose with west highlighted This article refers to the cardinal direction; for other uses see West (disambiguation). ... Banks Island, Northwest Territories. ... Victoria Island, NWT and Nunavut. ... Approximate area of the Beaufort Sea, and the disputed waters The Beaufort Sea is a large body of water north of The Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska and west of Canadas arctic islands that is a part of the Arctic Ocean. ...

The Amundsen Gulf was explored by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen between 1903 and 1906. The gulf is at the western end of the famous Northwest Passage, a route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. See also explorations, sea explorers, astronaut, conquistador, travelogue, the History of Science and Technology and Biography. ... Roald Amundsen Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (July 16, 1872–June 18?, 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. ... See also: 1902 in Canada, 1904 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history. ... See also: 1905 in Canada, other events of 1906, 1907 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history. ... Popular Northwest Passage routes through the Canadian archipelago This article describes the route through the Canadian Arctic. ... For other meanings of Pacific, see Pacific (disambiguation). ...

Few people live along the shores of the gulf, but there are a few towns and communities including: Sachs Harbour, Holman, and Paulatuk. Heading north in the gulf one would find the Prince of Wales Strait. Heading southeast and east, the gulf leads through the Dolphin and Union Strait, past Simpson Bay and into the Coronation Gulf. From there one would go through the Dease Strait and into the Queen Maud Gulf, and eventually head northeast into the Victoria Strait. Heading west and northwest a traveler would first enter the Beaufort Sea and then the Arctic Ocean. Sachs Harbour is a small community on the southwestern coast of Banks Island, in Canadas Northwest Territories. ... The Prince of Wales Strait is a strait in the Northwest Territories of Canada, and separates Banks Island from Victoria Island. ... Coronation Gulf separates mainland Canadas Nunavut Territory from Victoria Island. ...

The entire gulf is in the Arctic Tundra climate region, characterized by extremely cold winters. In late winter the Amundsen Gulf is covered in sea ice. Most of the ice breaks up in July during a normal year, with some areas in the far eastern and northern part of the gulf only breaking up in August. In physical geography, tundra is an area where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. ...

References

• The Atlas of Canada - [1]