Rice Strait

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 29 June 1855 in Baddeck, Nova Scotia), who was the photographer on Adolphus Greely's ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition, and also a correspondent with the New York Herald. He was the only Canadian on this United States Army Signal Corps sponsored expedition to the Arctic. Rice died on 9 April 1884, before the expedition's rescue.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Dieck, Herman Dieck (1885). The Marvellous Wonders of the Polar World. Philadelphia: Thompson National Pub. Co. p. 521. OCLC 6878914.
  2. ↑ The Photographic news. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. 1858. p. 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. p. 584. OCLC 3569895.

Coordinates: 78°43′N 074°43′W / 78.717°N 74.717°W / 78.717; -74.717 (Rice Strait)


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