Jones Sound

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Jones Sound, Nunavut, Canada.██ Nunavut██ Greenland██ Northwest Territories
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Jones Sound, Nunavut, Canada.██ Nunavut██ Greenland██ Northwest Territories

Jones Sound (76°0′N 86°0′W) lies between Devon Island and, to the north, the southern end of Ellesmere Island, in Nunavut, Canada. At its northeastern end it is linked by several channels to Norwegian Bay; at its western end it opens via Glacier Strait into Baffin Bay.

It was first sighted in 1616 by the English explorer William Baffin, who named it after one of his patrons.