Rice Strait

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Rice Strait is a narrow waterway between Ellesmere Island's eastern coast and Pim Island in northern Canada's territory of Nunavut. It connects Rosse Bay on the north with Buchanan Strait to the south.[1]

The strait is named after Sergeant George W. Rice (born Sydney, Nova Scotia), United States Army Signal Corps photographer on Adolphus Greely's Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, and correspondent with the New York Herald. Rice died in April 1884, before the expedition's rescue.[2][3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Dieck, Herman Dieck (1885). The Marvellous Wonders of the Polar World. Philadelphia: Thompson National Pub. Co., 521. OCLC 6878914. 
  2. ^ Crookes, Sir William; Simpson, G Wharton, editors (1858). The Photographic news. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 639. OCLC 15044524. 
  3. ^ Buel, James William (1884). The world's wonders as seen by the great tropical and polar explorers : being an encyclopedia of exploration, discovery and adventure in all parts of the world .... St. Louis: Historical Pub. Co., 584. OCLC 3569895. 

Coordinates: 78°43′00″N, 074°43′00″W

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