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'''Robeson Channel''' ({{coord|82|00|N|061|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 northernmost island, [[Ellesmere Island]]. It is the most northerly part of [[Nares Strait]], linking [[Hall Basin]] 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|mi|abbr=on}} in length and between {{convert|11|to|18|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.