Prince Albert Sound

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Prince Albert Sound (Inuit: Kangiryuak)^[1] is a Northern Canadian body of water located in the Inuvik Region of southwestern Victoria Island, Northwest Territories. It is an inlet of Amundsen Gulf. The sound separates the on the south Wollaston Peninsula from the island’s central areas. On 14 May 1851 some of Robert McClure's men reached its north side. Ten days later John Rae (explorer) reached its south side, but the two groups had no contact.

Prince Albert Sound is 172 mi (277 km) long and 40 mi (64 km) wide.^[2]

References

↑ Critical Inuit studies: an anthology of contemporary Arctic ethnography. University of Nebraska Press, 2006
↑ "Prince Albert Sound". 2000. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. Retrieved 2008-08-25.

v t e Hydrography of the Northwest Territories

Rivers	Arctic Red Back Coppermine Fond du Lac Great Bear Hay Horn Hornaday Kagloryuak Keele Kotaneelee Liard Mackenzie North Nahanni Petitot Redstone Roscoe Slave South Nahanni Trout Yellowknife more...

Lakes	Artillery Aylmer Blackwater Boyd Buffalo Clinton-Colden Colville Faber Firedrake Great Bear Great Slave Hottah Howard Kakisa Kasba Keller Lac Belot Lac de Gras Lac des bois (Northwest Territories) Lac La Martre Lynx MacKay Mosquito Napaktulik Nonacho Point Selwyn Snowbird Tahiryuak Tathlina Trout Tulemalu Wholdaia more...

Coastal features	Amundsen Gulf Beaufort Sea Dolphin and Union Strait Fitzwilliam Strait Hazen Strait Kellett Strait Liddon Gulf M'Clure Strait Minto Inlet Murray Inlet Prince of Wales Strait Richard Collinson Inlet Prince Albert Sound Wilkins Strait

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