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{{Short description|Waterway between Greenland and Canada}}

[[Image:Map indicating Robeson Channel, Nunavut, Canada.png|right|thumb|225px|Robeson Channel, Nunavut, Canada.{{legend|#ffff66|Ellesmere Island, Nunavut}}{{legend|#ffffcc|Greenland}}]]

'''Robeson Channel''' ({{coord|82|000|N|61061|30|W|region:CA-NU_type:waterbody_scale:2000000|display=inline,title|name=Robeson Channel}}) is a body of water lying between [[Greenland]] and [[Canada]]'s most northerlynorthernmost island, [[Ellesmere Island]]. It is the most northerly part of [[Nares Strait]], linking [[KennedyHall ChannelBasin]] to the south with the [[Arctic Ocean]] to the north. The [[Newman Fjord]] in Greenland has its mouth in the Robeson Channel.

It is about {{convert|50 [[mile]]s (80 km)|mi|abbr=on}} in length and between {{convert|11 to |and|18 miles (18 to 29 km)|mi|abbr=on}} wide. [[Alert, Nunavut|Alert]], the world's most northerly permanently- inhabited settlement, lies nearby.

It was named during the 1871 [[Polaris Expedition]], for American [[George Robeson]], Secretary of the Navy in the [[Ulysses S. Grant]] administration.

==Further reading==

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* 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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{{Channels of Nunavut}}

[[Category:Straits of Greenland]]

[[Category:StraitsChannels of Qikiqtaaluk Region]]

[[Category:CanadianCanada–Greenland Arctic Archipelagoborder]]

[[Category:International straits]]

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