Kennedy Channel (Danish: Kennedy Kanalen) is an Arctic sea passage between Canada's Ellesmere Island and Northern Greenland. It is a part of Nares Strait. Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. ... The Nares strait is a waterway between Canadas Ellesmere Island and Greenland which connects Baffin Bay to the Arctic Ocean. ...

Kennedy Channel connects Kane Basin with Hall Basin. It is entered from the south between Cape Lawrence and Cape Jackson. The channel extends northeast for about 130km between comparatively regular and almost parallel shores, 24 to 32 km apart. Its junction with Hall Basin lies on a line joining Cape Baird and Cape Morton. Disambiguation Kane Basin - artic waterway and sea inlet. ...

There is deep water throughout Kennedy Channel; depths average 336m on the northwest side and range from 183m to 275m on the southeast side.

Elisha Kent Kane named the channel between 1853 and 1855 during his second Grinnell Expedition. Elisha Kent Kane Elisha Kent Kane (February 3, 1820 - February 16, 1857) was a U.S. scientist and explorer. ... 1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Henry Walton Grinnell (November 19, 1843 - September 2, 1920), known as Walton Grinnell was a naval veteran of the American Civil War and the Spanish-American war. ...

There are some discrepancies as to which Kennedy the Channel is name after. Some historians believe it is the, often under recognised, Canadian-born William Kennedy (1814-1890), a contemporary of Kane, whom he meet in 1851 while their ships was stuck in the ice, each on different search expedition in search of the missing British explorer John Franklin. Kane was at that time the medical officer of Edwin J. DeHaven's first U.S. arctic expedition. There are several notable people called William Kennedy: William Nassau Kennedy, second Mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba. ... Maybe you are looking for John Hope Franklin Sir John Franklin, FRGS (April 15, 1786 – June 11, 1847) was an English sea captain and Arctic explorer, whose fate — and that of his last expedition — was for many years a mystery. ...

Most historians however believe it is John Pendleton Kennedy, United States Secretary of the Navy (1852-1853) under which supervision and directive Kane’s second Grinnell Expedition was conducted. There have been several John Kennedys: John F. Kennedy, American president John F. Kennedy, Jr. ... Flag of the United States Secretary of the Navy. ...

Sources

• Sailing Directions Enroute - Pub 181 Greenland and Iceland (Enroute), 2002, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.