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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Barrow Strait</span></h1>
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<td style="vertical-align:top;">Verbindet Gewässer</td>
<td><a href="Lancastersund" title="Lancastersund">Lancastersund</a>
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<td style="vertical-align:top;">mit Gewässer</td>
<td><a href="Viscount-Melville-Sund" title="Viscount-Melville-Sund">Viscount-Melville-Sund</a>
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<td style="vertical-align:top;">Trennt Landmasse</td>
<td><a href="Bathurst_Island_(Kanada)" title="Bathurst Island (Kanada)">Bathurst Island</a>, <a href="Cornwallis_Island_(Kanada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cornwallis Island (Kanada)">Cornwallis Island</a>, <a href="Devon_Island" title="Devon Island">Devon Island</a>
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<td><a href="Prince-of-Wales-Insel_(Nunavut)" title="Prince-of-Wales-Insel (Nunavut)">Prince of Wales Island</a>, <a href="Russell_Island_(Nunavut)" title="Russell Island (Nunavut)">Russell Island</a> <a href="Somerset_Island_(Kanada)" title="Somerset Island (Kanada)">Somerset Island</a>
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<td style="vertical-align:top;"><a href="World_Geodetic_System_1984" title="World Geodetic System 1984">Geographische Lage</a>
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<td><span id="Barrow_Strait" class="coordinates -print"><a class="external text" href="geo:74.416666666667,-96.333333333333"><span title="Breitengrad">74° 25′ <abbr title="Nord">N</abbr></span>, <span title="Längengrad">96° 20′ <abbr title="West">W</abbr></span></a></span><span class="geo noexcerpt" style="display:none"><span class="body"></span><span class="latitude">74.416666666667</span><span class="longitude">-96.333333333333</span><span class="elevation"></span></span>
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<td>270 km
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<td>45 km
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<td><a href="Resolute_Bay" title="Resolute Bay">Resolute Bay</a>
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<p>Der <b>Barrow Strait</b> ist eine 270 km<sup id="cite_ref-legault_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-legault-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> lange <a href="Meerenge" title="Meerenge">Meerenge</a> im <a href="Kanada" title="Kanada">kanadischen</a> Territorium <a href="Nunavut" title="Nunavut">Nunavut</a>. Sie ist die schmalste Passage des <a href="Parry_Channel_(Kanada)" title="Parry Channel (Kanada)">Parry Channels</a> und verbindet den <a href="Lancastersund" title="Lancastersund">Lancastersund</a> im Osten mit dem <a href="Viscount-Melville-Sund" title="Viscount-Melville-Sund">Viscount-Melville-Sund</a> im Westen. Die im <a href="Kanadisch-arktischer_Archipel" title="Kanadisch-arktischer Archipel">kanadisch-arktischen Archipel</a> gelegene Barrow Strait trennt dabei die zu den <a href="K%C3%B6nigin-Elisabeth-Inseln" title="Königin-Elisabeth-Inseln">Königin-Elisabeth-Inseln</a> gehörenden Inseln <a href="Bathurst_Island_(Kanada)" title="Bathurst Island (Kanada)">Bathurst</a>, <a href="Cornwallis_Island_(Kanada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cornwallis Island (Kanada)">Cornwallis</a> und <a href="Devon_Island" title="Devon Island">Devon</a> im Norden von der <a href="Prince-of-Wales-Insel_(Nunavut)" title="Prince-of-Wales-Insel (Nunavut)">Prince of Wales Island</a>, der <a href="Russell_Island_(Nunavut)" title="Russell Island (Nunavut)">Russell Island</a> sowie der <a href="Somerset_Island_(Kanada)" title="Somerset Island (Kanada)">Somerset Island</a> im Süden. An der schmalsten Stelle, zwischen Cornwallis Island und Somerset Island, hat die Meerenge eine Breite von etwa 45 Kilometern. Die Siedlung <a href="Resolute_Bay" title="Resolute Bay">Resolute Bay</a> an der Barrow Strait ist die einzige Siedlung in diesem Bereich der <a href="Nordwestpassage" title="Nordwestpassage">Nordwestpassage</a>.
</p><p>Benannt ist die Meerenge nach <a href="John_Barrow_(Staatsbeamter)" title="John Barrow (Staatsbeamter)">Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet</a>, einem britischen Politiker und Förderer mehrerer offizieller und halboffizieller Entdeckungsfahrten in die <a href="Arktis" title="Arktis">Arktis</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weblinks">Weblinks</h2></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/ocean/seaice/archipel_e.html">Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Barrow Strait and Lancaster Sound</a> in <i>Fisheries and Oceans Canada</i> (englisch)</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Einzelnachweise">Einzelnachweise</h2></div>
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<li id="cite_note-legault-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-legault_1-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <span class="book">Donat Pharand, Legault, L.H.: <cite class="lang" lang="en" dir="auto" style="font-style:italic">The Northwest Passage: Arctic Straits</cite>. Martinus Nijhoff
Publishers, 1984, ISBN 90-247-2979-3, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em"> </span>7</span> (englisch, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=bYMpwN0COjAC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=%22barrow+strait%22&source=web&ots=cPXInuBFXz&sig=hJvL_jXjRy6IroXxtkP3DM-pmhE&hl=en">google.com</a>).<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Barrow+Strait&rft.au=Donat%26%2332%3BPharand%2C%26%2332%3BLegault%2C+L.H.&rft.btitle=The+Northwest+Passage%3A+Arctic+Straits&rft.date=1984&rft.genre=book&rft.isbn=9024729793&rft.pages=7&rft.pub=Martinus+Nijhoff%0APublishers" style="display:none"> </span></span></span>
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