Passage Kennedy

The Passage Kennedy , also called Kennedy Channel (in English Kennedy Chanel , Danish: Kennedy Kanalen ; ) is a maritime passage of the Arctic Ocean between the Greenland and the most septentrional island of the Canada, the island Ellesmere.

It belongs to the Détroit of Nares, of which it connects the Bassin Kane to the Bassin Hall. It begins in the south by the courses Lawrence and Jackson; its junction with the Hall basin is marked by the courses Baird and Morton. It is approximately 130 km long varying for a width from 24 to 32 km and for a depth varying from 180 to 340 meters.

It was named thus by Elisha Kane in the neighborhoods of 1854 during its second Arctic voyage to the research of the lost forwarding of Franklin. It is however not completely clearly in the honor of which Kennedy the passage was named. Kane could have his/her exploring friend at the head William Kennedy, which it had met a few years before and which were both implied in the research of Franklin forwarding. However the majority of the historians think that it was named in the honor of John Pendleton Kennedy, the American Secretary of State of the Navy between 1852 and 1853, and under the direction of which the second Arctic voyage of Kane took place.

References

National Agency Geospatial-Intelligence, Sailing Enroute Directions: Pub 181 Greenland and Iceland (Enroute) , 2002.

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